Harry Martinson

Harry Edmund Martinson ( born May 6, 1904 in Jämshög, Blekinge, † February 11, 1978 in Stockholm) was a Swedish writer. For " a work that captures the dewdrop and reflect the cosmos ", Martinson received the 1974 Nobel Prize for Literature (together with Eyvind Johnson).

Life

Martinson lost his father at the age of six years. The following year, his mother emigrated to the American West Coast. The boy Harry grew up in a local orphanage. With 16 years Martinson hired as a sailor and went around the earth, with longer stays, among other things in Brazil and India. At age 23, he had to give up seafaring because of a lung disease. But afterwards he went up temporarily on the move.

Martinson's poetry collection Spökskeppet ( Ghost Ship ) in 1929 as part of an anthology - published (5 unga "Five Boy "). From then on, he celebrated unprecedented literary success. Martinson was honored in his home with many literary awards, was elected in 1949 in the Svenska academies and got in 1954 an honorary doctorate from the University of Gothenburg awarded.

Martinson was married from 1929 with the writer Moa Martinson; 1941, the marriage ended in divorce. In 1942, he married Ingrid Lindcrantz. Martinson lived mostly in the Stockholm area, including in Gnesta, and finally in Sollentuna.

Martinson was practicing Buddhist - " not religious, but in the moral- philosophical sense ," as he put it himself in 1961 in a radio interview. Despite his success with the epic Aniara he was strongly attacked in the press by critics of his later works. During a hospital stay Martinson committed suicide with scissors. Despite its commitment to Buddhism, he was buried in Sollentuna Church. One of his poems ( De blomster som bor i marks ) was recorded in the book of Psalms, the Swedish Church.

Work

Martinson's literary debut in 1929 he laid off ( Spökskeppet - " Ghost Ship "). The orphan growing up and the time at sea and on the move are factors that strongly influenced Martinson's work. The main work Aniara is the world's most famous, but must also Vagnen the masterpieces of Swedish poetry ( "The car "; 1960) and Dikter om och ljus mörker ( " poems about light and darkness "; 1971) are counted.

Authors whose works declared legally affect Martinson had, are Viktor Rydberg, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad and Leo Tolstoy.

  • Nomad, 1931
  • Journey without a destination, 1932
  • Cape farewell!, 1933
  • The nettles flourish, 1935
  • The way out, 1936
  • Passat, 1945
  • The Way bells Empire, 1948
  • Aniara. A Chorus Line of People in Time and Space, 1956
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