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Harry Martinson

Swedish writer, Nobel Prize for Literature, 1974
Date of Birth: 06.05.1904
Country: Sweden

Content:
  1. Biography of Harry Martinson
  2. Literary Career and Recognition

Biography of Harry Martinson

Early Life and Career

Harry Edmund Martinson was a Swedish writer and Nobel laureate in Literature in 1974. He was born in Ytterjärna, in the province of Blekinge in southern Sweden. His father, Martin Olofsson, was a long-haul captain who died when Harry was only 6 years old. Soon after, his mother abandoned Harry and his six sisters and immigrated to America, leaving the children in an orphanage, one of the poorest in the area. Martinson spent his childhood in various foster homes, from which he often ran away.

At the end of World War I, still a teenager, Harry went to Gothenburg and became a cabin boy on a ship. From 1920 to 1927, he worked as a stoker and sailor, serving on 14 different ships. He often ran away from the ships in ports in India, China, a Harry martinson quotes.