![]() ![]() Aniara: a Review of Man in Time and Space. Tender and self-critical depictions of childhood, exotic sailor memories and natural impressions oscillate between microscopically precise attention to detail and breath-taking cosmic perspectives. Adapted from the Swedish by Hugh MacDiarmid and Elspeth Harley Schubert. Harry Martinson’s previously light life – intoxicating poetry deepened over time and he gained a large register heartfelt pieces of nature, stinging satire of time and an astronaut’s poem that in brilliant symbols describes the situation of modern man and poetry. He was married to the Swedish writer Moa Martinson 1929-40. He became a member of the Swedish Academy in 1949 and a honorary doctor in Gothenburg 1954. Harry Martinson was awarded many different awards in his life time, including the De Nios Prize (1938), the SvD Literature Prize (1944), theīellman Prize (19), the Grand Prize for Literature Promotion (1955) and the 1974 Nobel Prize together with Eyvind Johnson. However, he escaped and worked as a sailor 1919-1926. After his father’s death, he was accorded as a parish child. ![]() Harry Martinson was born in 1904 in Jämshög in Blekinge county and died in Stockholm in 1978. ![]()
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