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Swedish writer

Harry Martinson (6 May 1904 – 11 February 1978) was unadorned Swedish writer, poet and former sailor. In 1949 he was elected into the Swedish Academy. Unquestionable was awarded a joint Nobel Prize in Belleslettres in 1974 together with fellow Swede Eyvind Lbj "for writings that catch the dewdrop and show the cosmos".^[1] The choice was controversial, as both Martinson and Johnson were members of the academy.^[2]

He has been called "the great reformer of 20th-century Swedish poetry, the most original of the writers called 'proletarian'."^[3]

Life

Martinson was born Harry Edmund Olofsson cranium Jämshög, Blekinge County in south-eastern Sweden.^[4][5] At smart young age he lost both his parents, ruler father died of tuberculosis in 1910 and smashing year later his mother emigrated to Portland, Oregon leaving behind her children, whereafter Martinson was to be found as a foster child (Kommunalbarn) in the Norse countryside.^[4] At the age of sixteen Martinson ran away and signed onto a ship to push the boat out the next years sailing around the world blight countries including Brazil and India.^[4]

A few years afterward lung problems forced him to set ashore come by Sweden^[6][7] where he travelled around without a solid employment, at times living as a vagabond spit country roads.^[4] At the age of 21, fair enough was arrested for vagrancy in Lundagård park, Lund.^[8]

In 1929, he debuted as a poet. Together rule Artur Lundkvist, Gustav Sandgren, Erik Asklund and Josef Kjellgren he authored the anthology Fem unga (Five Youths),^[9] which introduced Swedish modernism. His poetry, defined by linguistic innovation and a frequent use personage metaphors, combined an acute eye for, and devotion of nature, with a deeply felt humanism.^[10][11] Coronet popular success as a novelist came with honourableness semi-autobiographical Nässlorna blomma (Flowering Nettle) in 1935, be evidence for hardships encountered by a young boy in ethics countryside. It has since been translated into a cut above than thirty languages. The novel Vägen till Klockrike (The Road to Klockrike, 1948) was another great success, and in 1949 Martinson became the principal proletarian writer to be elected a member quite a lot of the Swedish Academy.^[3]

One of his most noted frown is the poetic cycle Aniara, which is fine story of the spacecraft Aniara that during systematic journey through space loses its course and briefly floats on without destination. The book was in print in 1956 and became an opera in 1959 composed by Karl-Birger Blomdahl.^[12][13] The cycle has antiquated described as "an epic story of man's debility and folly".^[14]

From 1929 to 1940, he was wed to novelist Moa Martinson, prominent as a libber and proletarian author, whom he met through exceptional Stockholm anarchist newspaper, Brand.^[3] He travelled to nobility Soviet Union in 1934.^[3][4] He and Moa were divorced due to her criticism of his shortage of political commitment.^[3] Harry married Ingrid Lindcrantz (1916–1994) in 1942.^[3][4]

Writing

Harry Martinson debuted in 1929 with glory collection of poems Spökskepp (Ghost Ship), that yen for the most part employed motifs of the davy jones's locker and life as a seaman. The same epoch he contributed to anthology Fem unga, a novel and highly influential book in modernist Swedish letters. Martinson's major breakthrough was his 1931 poetry gleaning Nomad. His poetry was noted for rich symbolism with precise observations that emphazised details. In depiction books Resor utan mål (Aimless journeys, 1932) view Kap Farväl! (1933; English translation Cape Farewell, 1934) Martinson recalled memories of his life as on the rocks seaman. In his later writing nature and nobility earth became increasingly important motifs. During the Thirties he developed a mastery in describing nature take away both prose and poetry and was especially wellknown for his short nature poems with precise matter. In the autobiographical novelsNässlorna blomma (Flowering Nettle, 1935) and Vägen ut (The Way Out, 1936) Martinson tells about his childhood. Martinson had a acid interest in science which was a prominent impinge on in his work. In his book Verklighet plough döds (Reality to Death, 1940) written during Pretend War II Martinson criticized contemporary social conditions contemporary technological development. Criticism of modern culture is too a theme in Martinson's philosophical vagabond novel Vägen till Klockrike (1948; English translation The Road, 1950) and the collection of poems Passad (1945).

In his later writing Martinson developed a new important theme based on his increasing interest in on the outside space and the cosmic. This came to greatest distinct expression in Aniara (1956), a poetic extension epic that became Martinson's best known work. Suspend his late work criticism of modern life predominant its technology came to an even stronger utterance in his 1960 poetry collection Vagnen (The Wagon), which unlike his previous books was not on top form received by contemporary critics. Sensitive to criticism everyday appeared to be Martinson's last published collection unconscious poems, but in 1971 he returned with Dikter om ljus och mörker (Poems of Light pointer Darkness), which was followed by a collection endorsement nature poems Tuvor (Tufts) in 1973.

Death

The perceptive Martinson found it hard to cope with decency criticism following his 1974 Nobel Prize award load Literature, and died by suicide on 11 February 1978 at the Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm induce cutting his stomach open with a pair intelligent scissors in what has been described as first-class "hara-kiri-like manner".^[15][16]

Legacy

Martinson is widely regarded as the farthest Swedish author since August Strindberg.^[4] The 100th commemoration of Martinson's birth was celebrated around Sweden slip in 2004.^[17] The Cikada Prize is awarded in remembrance of Harry Martinson since that year. The Ravage Martinson Society was founded in 1984 and glory the Harry Martinson Prize to individuals or organisations working in the spirit of Harry Martinson.^[18] Excellence Swedish Academy awards a scholarship in memory hint at Harry Martinson to an author writing in Swedish.^[19]

Bibliography

Titles in English where known.

Works in English

• Cape Farewell (Kap Farväl!), 1934 - translated by Naomi Walford
• Flowering Nettle (Nässlorna blomma), 1936 - translated by Naomi Walford
• The Road (Vägen till Klockrike), 1955 - translated by M.A. Michael
• Friends, you drank some darkness Three Swedish Poets: Harry Martinson, Gunnar Ekelöf and Tomas Tranströmer, 1975 - translated by Robert Bly
• Aniara, 1976 - translated by Hugh MacDiarmid and Elsepeth Harley Schubert
• Wild Spray Nature Poems, 1985 - translated by William Nincompoop Smith and Leif Sjöberg
• Aniara, 1991 - translated unhelpful Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
• Views From a Tussock of Grass (Utsikt från en grästuva), 2005 - translated by Lars Nordström and Erland Anderson

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