MARTINSON, Harry (Edmund)
- MARTINSON, Harry (Edmund)
(1904-1978)
Swedish author and poet, member of the Swedish Academy, recipient of the 1974 Nobel Literature Prize. A prolific writer, HM's one contribution to sf is Aniara (1953 Cikada; exp 1956; trans Hugh MacDiarmid and E. Harley Schubert as Aniara: A Review of Man in Time and Space 1963 UK), a 103-canto epic poem (
POETRY) eloquently defending humane valuesagainst the inhumanity of TECHNOLOGY within the story of the irreversible voyage of a GENERATION STARSHIP, Aniara, towards outer space. Despite or possibly because of the participation of Hugh MacDiarmid (1892-1978), arguably Scotland's most important 20th-century poet, the English translation ill serves the resonant, melodic and quotable original. Karl-Birger Blomdahl's opera (
MUSIC) based on the poem, Aniara (1959),features some pioneering electronic effects and has achieved international success. Some of the poems in the untranslated Doriderna (coll 1980) belong to the Aniara cycle.
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia.
Academic.
2011.
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Martinson,Harry Edmund — Mar·tin·son (märʹtn sôn , tēn ), Harry Edmund. 1904 1978. Swedish writer whose works include the proletarian novel The Road (1948) and Aniara (1956), an epic poem about space travel. He shared the 1974 Nobel Prize for literature. * * * … Universalium
Martinson, Harry (Edmund) — born May 6, 1904, Jämshög, Swed. died Feb. 11, 1978, Stockholm Swedish novelist and poet. He spent his childhood in foster homes and his young adulthood as a merchant seaman, labourer, and vagrant. He described his early experiences in two… … Universalium
Martinson, Harry (Edmund) — (6 may. 1904, Jämshög, Suecia–11 feb. 1978, Estocolmo). Novelista y poeta sueco. Pasó gran parte de su infancia en casas de adopción y su juventud como marino mercante, obrero y vagabundo. Describió sus experiencias de joven en dos novelas… … Enciclopedia Universal
Harry Edmund Martinson — Harry Martinson (links) und Ivar Lo Johansson Harry Edmund Martinson (* 6. Mai 1904 in Jämshög, Blekinge; † 11. Februar 1978 in Stockholm) war ein schwedischer Schriftsteller. Für „ein Werk, das den Tautropfen einfängt und das Weltall spiegelt“… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Martinson, Harry — ▪ Swedish author in full Harry Edmund Martinson born May 6, 1904, Jämshög, Swed. died Feb. 11, 1978, Stockholm Swedish novelist and poet who was the first self taught, working class writer to be elected to the Swedish Academy (1949).… … Universalium
Literaturnobelpreis 1974: Eyvind Johnson — Harry Edmund Martinson — Der Schwede Johnson wurde für seine im Dienst der Freiheit stehende Erzählkunst, sein Landsmann Martinson für »ein Werk, das den Tautropfen einfängt und das Weltall spiegelt«, geehrt. Biografien Eyvind Johnson, * Svartbjörnsbyn… … Universal-Lexikon
Harry Martinson — Harry Edmund Martinson (Jämshög, 1904 Estocolmo, 1978). Escritor y poeta sueco. Recibió, compartido con su compatriota Eyvind Johnson, el Premio Nobel de literatura en 1974 por una obra poética capaz de abarcar desde una gota de rocío a todo el… … Wikipedia Español
Edmund — or Edmond [ed′mənd] n. 〚OE Eadmund < ead (see EDGAR1) + mund, hand, protection: see MANUAL〛 a masculine name: dim. Ed, Ned * * * (849–870) a … Universalium
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