Harry Martinson
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Harry Martinson was a Swedish writer, poet and former sailor. In 1949 he was elected into the Swedish Academy. He was awarded a joint Nobel Prize in Literature in 1974 together with fellow Swede Eyvin
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Harry Martinson (second from right) at a writers meeting in Karlstad in 1958, with authors Eyvind Johnson (left) and Gabriel Jönsson (right).
The headstone on Martinson's grave in Silverdal, Sollentuna – north of Stockholm
A stone monument at Harry Martinson's birthplace in Nyteboda. The text translated to English reads "The Nobel Prize laureate Harry Martinson was born here on 6 May 1904."
Aniara (film)
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Aniara is a 2018 Swedish-Danish science fiction film directed and written by Pella Kågerman and Hugo Lilja. The film is an adaptation of the 1956 Swedish epic poem of the same name by Harry Martinson.
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…to unanimous critical acclaim and much public interest. It was later adapted to an opera by Karl-Birger Blomdahl and Erik Lindegren, and the 2018 film Aniara. Martinson worked on a follow-up to Aniara called Doriderna which was going to be about the people left on earth. In the meantime he published Gräsen…
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