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American poet and critic Alrik Gustafsson explained the complexity and experimental nature of Martinson's poetry as the "inability of the familiar language to express the power and ambiguity of the poet's impressions."

In the late 1930s, Martinson released three volumes of articles on nature, contrasting the natural, innocent world with the harshness of the industrial age.

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Harry Martinson

Swedish writer, Nobel Prize for Literature, 1974
Date of Birth: 06.05.1904
Country: Sweden

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  1. Biography of Harry Martinson
  2. Literary Career and Recognition

Biography of Harry Martinson

Early Life and Career

Harry Edmund Martinson was a Swedish writer and Nobel laureate in Literature in 1974.

〚OE Eadmund < ead (see EDGAR1) + mund, hand, protection: see MANUAL〛 a masculine name: dim.

harry edmund martinson biography of william hill

died Feb. 11, 1978, Stockholm       Swedish novelist and poet who was the first self taught, working class writer to be elected to the Swedish Academy (1949).… …   Universalium

  • Literaturnobelpreis 1974: Eyvind Johnson — Harry Edmund Martinson —   Der Schwede Johnson wurde für seine im Dienst der Freiheit stehende Erzählkunst, sein Landsmann Martinson für »ein Werk, das den Tautropfen einfängt und das Weltall spiegelt«, geehrt.

    Martinson, Harry (Edmund)

  • Martinson,Harry Edmund — Mar·tin·son (märʹtn sôn , tēn ), Harry Edmund. Among the several plays he wrote, the most significant is "Three Knives from Wei" ("Tre Knivar fran Wei", 1964).

    In 1974, Martinson was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, which he shared with his fellow Swede Eyvind Johnson, "for writings that catch the dewdrop and reflect the cosmos." After the award, there were voices, especially in Sweden, accusing the Swedish Academy of favoritism.

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  • Harry — Harry, Myriam * * * (as used in expressions) Belafonte, Harry Bertoia, Harry Blackmun, Harry Bridges, Harry Callahan, Harry (Morey) Coase, Ronald (Harry) Cohn, Harry Crick, Francis (Harry Compton) Harry Lillis Crosby Haldeman, H(arry) R(obbins)… …   Enciclopedia Universal

  • Edmund — (as used in expressions) Andros, Sir Edmund Burke, Edmund Cartwright, Edmund Cockburn, Sir Alexander (James Edmund), 10° baronet Dewey, Thomas E(dmund) Gosse, Sir Edmund Hillary, Sir Edmund (Percival) Husserl, Edmund Kean, Edmund Martinson, Harry …   Enciclopedia Universal

  • harry — /har ee/, v., harried, harrying.

    They had two daughters, Harriet and Eva. Harry Martinson died in February 1978. Describió sus experiencias de joven en dos novelas… …   Enciclopedia Universal

  • Harry Edmund Martinson — Harry Martinson (links) und Ivar Lo Johansson Harry Edmund Martinson (* 6. He was born in Ytterjärna, in the province of Blekinge in southern Sweden.

    From 1920 to 1927, he worked as a stoker and sailor, serving on 14 different ships. 2. 3. His father, Martin Olofsson, was a long-haul captain who died when Harry was only 6 years old. In 1934, Martinson traveled to the Soviet Union with his wife and participated in the work of the First Congress of Soviet Writers.

    Martinson's early poems, included in the anthology "Five Young" ("Fem Unga"), were influenced by Kipling, Walt Whitman, Carl Sandburg, and Edgar Lee Masters, but critics considered them more independent than his earlier works.

    Literary Career and Recognition

    After the release of the collection "Nomad" ("Nomad", 1931), which contained his first mature lyrical poems written in free verse, Martinson gained a reputation as a promising poet.

    to harass, annoy, or prove a nuisance to by or as if by repeated attacks; worry: He was harried by constant doubts. Martinson spent his childhood in various foster homes, from which he often ran away.

    At the end of World War I, still a teenager, Harry went to Gothenburg and became a cabin boy on a ship. Please don't go away!

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