Harry edmund martinson biography of william

Harry Martinson 6 May — 11 February was a Swedish writer, poet and former sailor. In he was elected into the Swedish Academy. He was awarded a joint Nobel Prize in Literature in together with fellow Swede Eyvind Johnson "for writings that catch the dewdrop and reflect the cosmos". He has been called "the great reformer of 20th-century Swedish poetry, the most original of the writers called 'proletarian'.

A few years later lung problems forced him to set ashore in Sweden [ 6 ] [ 7 ] where he travelled around without a steady employment, at times living as a vagabond on country roads. In , he debuted as a poet.

Harry edmund martinson biography of william: Harry Martinson (6 May –

His poetry, characterized by linguistic innovation and a frequent use of metaphors , combined an acute eye for, and love of nature, with a deeply felt humanism. It has since been translated into more than thirty languages. One of his most noted works is the poetic cycle Aniara , which is a story of the spacecraft Aniara that during a journey through space loses its course and subsequently floats on without destination.

The book was published in and became an opera in composed by Karl-Birger Blomdahl. From to , he was married to novelist Moa Martinson , prominent as a feminist and proletarian author, whom he met through a Stockholm anarchist newspaper, Brand. The same year he contributed to anthology Fem unga , a ground-breaking and highly influential book in modernist Swedish literature.