Martin Koch

Martin Koch, born in Stockholm on 23 December 1882 into a modest family that the father abandoned when the children were small, worked in the summer as a house painter, studied painting and in 1904 entered the Academy of Fine Arts. A member of a temperance order, which employed him in its library and with which he later broke, he lost his fiancée, a factory worker, carried off by tuberculosis. He published his first book in 1911, was Paris correspondent of a Social Democratic daily in the 1920s, set his own songs to music and died in Hedemora on 22 June 1940.

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• NovelGuds vackra världMartin Koch · 1916not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain