Harry Martinson (1904-78) sailed the oceans from 1920 to 1927 as an
escape from an unhappy childhood in rural southwest Sweden.
Returning to his native tracts, he devoted himself to writing and
eventually became one of the best-known authors of his time, his
books appealing widely both to academics and to the general reader.
His election to the Swedish Academy in 1949 was seen as a gesture
towards a generation of more or less self-educated working-class
writers, and he shared the 1974 Nobel Prize in Literature with
novelist Eyvind Johnson. Sections of the Swedish press responded
with such vehemence to the way Academicians had rewarded two of
their own that Martinson vowed never to publish again, and his last
years were darkened by despair and depression as his view of the
world became bleaker. His books reflect his upbringing, his travels
and his interest in science and social questions. His poetry has
many strands but the one most often admired is that which combines
close scrutiny of the small events of the natural world with an
intense awareness of cosmic distances in time and space. While his
prose books have reached a wide readership in several languages,
Martinson's poems have appeared only sporadically in English. Robin
Fulton's translations provide the first substantial selection of
Harry Martinson's poetry for English-language readers. His edition
has an introductory essay by Staffan Soderblom, was a Poetry Book
Society Recommended Translation and won him the Bernard Shaw Prize
for Swedish Translation.
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