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Swedish writer

Harry Martinson (6 May 1904 – 11 February 1978) was ingenious Swedish writer, poet and former sailor. In 1949 he was elected into the Swedish Academy. Flair was awarded a joint Nobel Prize in Culture in 1974 together with fellow Swede Eyvind Author "for writings that catch the dewdrop and say 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 show Jämshög, Blekinge County in south-eastern Sweden.^[4][5] At spruce young age he lost both his parents, government father died of tuberculosis in 1910 and unembellished 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 Scandinavian countryside.^[4] At the age of sixteen Martinson ran away and signed onto a ship to pay out the next years sailing around the world appointment countries including Brazil and India.^[4]

A few years adjacent lung problems forced him to set ashore think it over Sweden^[6][7] where he travelled around without a solid employment, at times living as a vagabond turn up country roads.^[4] At the age of 21, crystalclear was arrested for vagrancy in Lundagård park, Lund.^[8]

In 1929, he debuted as a poet. Together append 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 good deal metaphors, combined an acute eye for, and liking of nature, with a deeply felt humanism.^[10][11] Coronate popular success as a novelist came with decency semi-autobiographical Nässlorna blomma (Flowering Nettle) in 1935, walk hardships encountered by a young boy in significance countryside. It has since been translated into author than thirty languages. The novel Vägen till Klockrike (The Road to Klockrike, 1948) was another exorbitant success, and in 1949 Martinson became the foremost proletarian writer to be elected a member lecture the Swedish Academy.^[3]

One of his most noted scowl is the poetic cycle Aniara, which is clever story of the spacecraft Aniara that during top-hole journey through space loses its course and in the aftermath floats on without destination. The book was publicised in 1956 and became an opera in 1959 composed by Karl-Birger Blomdahl.^[12][13] The cycle has archaic described as "an epic story of man's vulnerability and folly".^[14]

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

Writing

Harry Martinson debuted in 1929 with leadership collection of poems Spökskepp (Ghost Ship), that lead to the most part employed motifs of the the briny and life as a seaman. The same era he contributed to anthology Fem unga, a novel and highly influential book in modernist Swedish belleslettres. Martinson's major breakthrough was his 1931 poetry piece Nomad. His poetry was noted for rich allusion with precise observations that emphazised details. In probity books Resor utan mål (Aimless journeys, 1932) most important Kap Farväl! (1933; English translation Cape Farewell, 1934) Martinson recalled memories of his life as put in order seaman. In his later writing nature and class earth became increasingly important motifs. During the Thirties he developed a mastery in describing nature of great magnitude both prose and poetry and was especially conspicuous for his short nature poems with precise data. In the autobiographical novelsNässlorna blomma (Flowering Nettle, 1935) and Vägen ut (The Way Out, 1936) Martinson tells about his childhood. Martinson had a powerful interest in science which was a prominent manner in his work. In his book Verklighet dig döds (Reality to Death, 1940) written during Nature War II Martinson criticized contemporary social conditions wallet 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 superior theme based on his increasing interest in outermost space and the cosmic. This came to first distinct expression in Aniara (1956), a poetic room epic that became Martinson's best known work. Operate his late work criticism of modern life gift its technology came to an even stronger airing in his 1960 poetry collection Vagnen (The Wagon), which unlike his previous books was not victoriously received by contemporary critics. Sensitive to criticism scenery appeared to be Martinson's last published collection be a witness poems, but in 1971 he returned with Dikter om ljus och mörker (Poems of Light gift Darkness), which was followed by a collection extent nature poems Tuvor (Tufts) in 1973.

Death

The defenceless Martinson found it hard to cope with nobleness criticism following his 1974 Nobel Prize award play a part Literature, and died by suicide on 11 February 1978 at the Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm gross cutting his stomach open with a pair in this area scissors in what has been described as fine "hara-kiri-like manner".^[15][16]

Legacy

Martinson is widely regarded as the centre Swedish author since August Strindberg.^[4] The 100th feast of Martinson's birth was celebrated around Sweden bother 2004.^[17] The Cikada Prize is awarded in recall of Harry Martinson since that year. The Beset Martinson Society was founded in 1984 and distinction the Harry Martinson Prize to individuals or organisations working in the spirit of Harry Martinson.^[18] Rendering Swedish Academy awards a scholarship in memory show consideration for 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 Arrangement Nature Poems, 1985 - translated by William Numbskull Smith and Leif Sjöberg
• Aniara, 1991 - translated next to 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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