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Harry Martinson (1904-1978) har blitt beskrevet som "Sveriges største naturbegavelse innen litteratur". Staffan Söderblom viser i denne boken hvordan Martinsons hjemløshet som barn kom til å prege ham for resten av livet, og hvordan hjemløshet ble et sentralt emne i forfatterskapet. Martinson ble raskt elsket av sitt publikum, men hans kritikk av den teknologiske utviklingen og uro for miljøspørsmål mot slutten av livet hans gjorde at mange så på ham som en nostalgisk bakstrever. Steffen Söderblom omvurderer i denne biografien Martinsons sene forfatterskap, og mener at Martinson tidligere en de fleste forutså menneskenes store fremtidsproblemer, og at tiden nå er rede for å forstå ham. 350 s., ib. 1994 (Natur och Kultur)
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Fatherless and abandoned by his mother at age six, Nobel Laureate Martinson grew up mostly in rural foster homes in the south of Sweden in the early years of the 20th century. This bilingual edition (Swedish and English), introduces his early work as a poet.
Nobel Prize in Literature, 1974 Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation 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 Academi...
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