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Harry Martinson

Died in 1978

Harry Martinson was born on 6 May 1904 in Jämshög, in Blekinge, the son of a former sailor turned shopkeeper. His father died in 1910 and his mother emigrated the following year to America: placed by the parish from family to family, he often ran away. He entered the ship's boys' school in Karlskrona in 1919, then sailed as a deckhand and stoker, and later knew life on the road. Elected to the Swedish Academy in 1949, he received the Nobel Prize in 1974, shared with another academician, which earned him harsh criticism. He took his own life in Stockholm on 11 February 1978.

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