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Harry Martinson, co-recipient of the 1974 Nobel Prize for Literature, was born in Jamshog, Sweden. His father died when he was 6, and his mother left soonafter to live in America. He spent his childhood in numerous foster homes. As a young adult he worked as a merchant seaman and a laborer.
Martinson wrote 20 novels and several collections of essays, poems, and short stories. His first book of poetry, SPOKSKEPP (GHOST SHIP), was published when he was 25. He became internationally known for his epic ANARIA which was published in 1956. As a writier he was associated with the literary group Fem Unga.
Harry Martinson died in Gnesta, Sweden in 1978.
CHRONOLOGY
1904 He was born in Jamshog, Sweden. (May 6)
1910 His father died.
1929 SPOKSKEPP; He married Moa Martinson.
1930 DET ENKLA OCH DET SVARA
1931 NOMAD
1932 RESOR UTAN MAL (AIMLESS JOURNEYS)
1933 KAP FARVAL (CAPE FARWELL)
1935 NASSLORNA BLOMMA (FLOWERING NETTLE)
1936 VAGEN UT (THE WAY OUT)
1937 SVARMARE OCH HARKRANK
1938 MIDSOMMARDALEN
1940 VERKLIGHET TILL DODS
1941 DEN FORLORADE JAGUAREN
1945 PASSAD (TRADE WIND)
1948 VAGEN TILL KLOCKRIKE (THE ROAD)
1949 He was elected to the Swedish Academy.
1953 CICADA
1956 ANIARA (ANIARA, A REVIEW OF MAN IN TIME AND SPACE)
1958 GRASEN I THULE
1960 VAGNEN
1963 UTSIKT FRAN EN GRASTUVA
1964 TRE KNIVAR FRAN WEI
1971 DIKTER OM LJUS OCH MORKER
1973 TUVOR
1974 He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1975 FRIENDS, YOU DRANK SOME DARKNESS: THREE SWEDISH POETS
1978 LANGS EKOTS STIGAR; He died in Gnesta, Sweden. (February 11)
1980 DORIDERNA
1983 ANIARA - BOLLESAGOR
1985 WILD BOUQUET: NATURE POEMS
1986 UR DE TUSEN DIKTERNAS BOK
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