Harry Martinson is widely regarded as one of the leading figures in twentieth-century Swedish literature. When he began publishing his works, critics and fellow writers alike quickly recognized his ly...
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Critical Essay by Leif SjÖberg
Hardly ever has a Swedish author led a life more fantastic than that of Harry Martinson; in Swedish literature no exoticism is more captivating than that in his ...
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Critical Essay by Leif SjÖberg
It remains to be seen if even a very considerable author like Harry Martinson will be able to make an impression on the English-speaking literary world—an...
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Critical Essay by Michael Meyer
Martinson, now well over seventy, is (or was) a genuine proletarian poet who served for years as a merchant seaman and made his mark in the 1920s and 1930s with splend...
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Critical Essay by Christopher Howell
The first thing one notices about Harry Martinson's poems is their precision and over-all exactitude…. Always the precision takes on its own life, m...
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Stockholm (dpa) - Winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature since
1945:
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2006 Orhan Pamuk (Turkey)
2005 Harold Pinter (Britain)
2004 Elfried...
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Harry (Edmund) Martinson
Critical Essay by Leif SjÖberg
LIST: Nobel Prize for Literature laureates since 1945
