Aniara poem english6/1/2023 At a young age he lost both his parents, his father died of tuberculosis in 1910 and a year later his mother emigrated to Portland, Oregon leaving behind her children, whereafter Martinson was placed as a foster child ( Kommunalbarn) in the Swedish countryside. Martinson was born in Jämshög, Blekinge County in south-eastern Sweden. He has been called "the great reformer of 20th-century Swedish poetry, the most original of the writers called 'proletarian'." Life The choice was controversial, as both Martinson and Johnson were members of the academy. He was awarded a joint Nobel Prize in Literature in 1974 together with fellow Swede Eyvind Johnson "for writings that catch the dewdrop and reflect the cosmos". In 1949 he was elected into the Swedish Academy. Harry Martinson ( – 11 February 1978) was a Swedish writer, poet and former sailor.
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