Moa Martinson

Moa Martinson (born Helga Svarts ) ( born November 2, 1890 in Östergötland; † August 5, 1964 in Södermanland ) was a Swedish writer.

Biography

The daughter of a poor garment worker spent her youth first in Norrköping and then as a kitchen assistant in Stockholm. After her first marriage to Harry Johansson, a worker in a cement factory, it was an agricultural worker and lost her husband by suicide and two of the five resulting from this marriage sons by accident.

In 1929 she married the writer Harry Martinson, the ( Ghost Ship ) was just the collection of poems " Spökskeppet " his literary debut. Inspired by reading the works of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, Maxim Gorky, and especially by Martin Andersen Nexø she herself began a literary activity and was in 1933 with the novel " Women and apple trees " ( Kvinnor och äppelträd ) her literary debut.

Wider attention she reached in particular by an autobiographical tetralogy, which represented her own early life in misery and proletariat. At this tetralogy was the novels

• "Married mother ", 1936 ( Mor gifter sig)
• " Church wedding ", 1938 ( Kyrkbröllop )
• "Roses of the King", 1939 ( Kungens rosor )
• " Encounter with a poet ," 1950 ( Jag en möter diktare )

The marriage with Harry Martinson in 1941 divorced.

Her other novels and short stories, in which they also described the tough life of factory workers include:

• " Rogge Wacht", 1935 ( Rågvakt )
• " The women of Kolmaarden "
• " Way under the stars", 1940 ( Vägen under Stjärnorna )
• "Fire Lily ", 1941 ( Brandliljor )
• " The army on the horizon ", 1942 ( poor vid horisonten )
• " The Invisible Lover", 1943 (The osynliga älskaren )

In addition, she has also published articles, poems, commentaries, short stories in women's magazines.