Harry Martinson (6 May 1904 – 11 February 1978) was a Swedish writer, poet and former sailor. In 1949 he was elected into the Swedish Academy. He was...
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Moa Martinson, born Helga Maria Swarts sometimes spelt Swartz, (2 November 1890 – 5 August 1964) was one of Sweden's most noted authors of proletarian...
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Aniara (category Works by Harry Martinson)
book-length epic science fiction poem written by Swedish Nobel laureate Harry Martinson from 1953 to 1956. It narrates the tragedy of a large passenger spacecraft...
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is an adaptation of the 1956 Swedish epic poem of the same name by Harry Martinson. The film is set in a dystopian future where climate change ravages...
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Connie Martinson, American writer and television personality Edwin Joseph Martinson, American politician Gloria Martinson, American philanthropist Harry Martinson...
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1974 Nobel Prize in Literature (category Harry Martinson)
narrative art, farseeing in lands and ages, in the service of freedom" and Harry Martinson (1904–1978) "for writings that catch the dewdrop and reflect the cosmos...
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translator 8 April - Georg Werner, Olympic freestyle swimmer 6 May - Harry Martinson, writer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature 22 May - Uno Lamm...
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tormented and ironical. Another important modernist poet was Harry Martinson (1904–1978). Harry Martinson had an unparalleled feeling for nature, in the spirit...
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was awarded a literature prize from Svenska Dagbladet (shared with Harry Martinson, Lars Ahlin and Elly Jannes). In 1978 he received an honorary doctorate...
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Aniara is a poem by Swedish Nobel laureate Harry Martinson. Aniara may also refer to: Aniara (beetle), a genus of tiger beetles, containing only one species...
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August 2000). "Martinson begick harakiri" [Martinson committed hara-kiri]. Aftonbladet (in Swedish). Retrieved 21 December 2015. "Harry Martinson – Facts"....
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Ghods-Nakhai, James T. Farrell, Camilo José Cela (awarded in 1989), Harry Martinson (awarded in 1974), Hugh MacDiarmid, and Miguel Ángel Asturias (awarded...
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repertoire. In 1959 he composed the opera Aniara based on the poem by Harry Martinson. His output of compositions also includes concertos for violin and...
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Pär Lagerkvist in 1951, and the shared prize to Eyvind Johnson and Harry Martinson in 1974. Selma Lagerlöf was elected a member of the Swedish Academy...
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(1891–1938) Thomas Mann (1875–1955) Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923) Harry Martinson (1904–1978) Eugenio Montale (1896–1981) Marianne Moore (1887–1972)...
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Andrić Seferis Sholokhov Agnon Solzhenitsyn Böll White Pinter Johnson Martinson Montale Aleixandre Singer Elytis Miłosz Canetti Golding Seifert Brodsky...
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writers like Ivar Lo-Johansson, Eyvind Johnson, Jan Fridegård and Harry Martinson appeared writing about the working-class, often from the perspective...
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Aniara (opera) (category Harry Martinson)
Blomdahl, with a libretto by Erik Lindegren based on the poem Aniara by Harry Martinson, that was premiered on 31 May 1959. The opera was described by the...
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Marcus (1880–1952), journalist Liza Marklund (born 1962) Harry Martinson (1904–1978) Moa Martinson(1890–1964) Erik Mesterton (1903–2004) Vilhelm Moberg (1898–1973)...
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Eyvind Johnson (category Harry Martinson)
Academy in 1957 and shared the 1974 Nobel Prize in Literature with Harry Martinson with the citation: for a narrative art, far-seeing in lands and ages...
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short story, essays, philosophy, drama Birger Ekeberg (1880–1968) Harry Martinson (1904–1978) 7 Henriette Charasson (1884–1972) France poetry, essays...
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United Kingdom novel, short story, poetry, literary criticism, essays Harry Martinson (1904–1978) 7 Johan Falkberget (1879–1967) Norway novel, short story...
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Jensen, Pär Lagerkvist, Halldór Laxness, Nelly Sachs, Eyvind Johnson, Harry Martinson and Tomas Tranströmer. World-famous Nordic children's book writers...
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Fem unga (category Harry Martinson)
contributed to it: Erik Asklund, Josef Kjellgren, Artur Lundkvist, Harry Martinson and Gustav Sandgren. Fem unga played a key role in introducing literary...
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United States 1963 Donald Keene (1922–2019) United States 1964, 1965 Harry Martinson (1904–1978) Sweden Junzaburō Nishiwaki 20 January 1894 Ojiya, Niigata...
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Strindberg, Astrid Lindgren, and Nobel Prize winners Selma Lagerlöf and Harry Martinson. In total seven Nobel Prizes in Literature have been awarded to Swedes...
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Swedish proposal; name of a spaceship in Aniara, the eponymous poem by Harry Martinson. // Phoenix α Phoenicis Ankaa /ˈæŋkə/ Vulpecula α Vulpeculae Anser...
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Jensen, Pär Lagerkvist, Halldór Laxness, Nelly Sachs, Eyvind Johnson, Harry Martinson, Tomas Tranströmer, and Jon Fosse. In medieval times Scandinavia shared...
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(1905–1982) 5 Karen Blixen (1885–1962) Denmark novel, short story, memoir Harry Martinson (1904–1978) Elias Wessén (1889–1981) 6 Albert Camus (1913–1960) France...
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Lasker-Schüler Federico García Lorca Artur Lundkvist Stéphane Mallarmé Harry Martinson Henri Michaux Birger Sjöberg August Stramm Giorgos Seferis Philippe...
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