Harry Martinson

Raised in the Swedish countryside after the early loss of his parents, he left school at sixteen to work as a seaman, a period that later supplied material for his first acclaimed prose. Emerging as a poet in the late 1920s, he helped introduce modernism to Swedish literature through the anthology Fem unga and achieved a breakthrough with the 1931 collection Nomad, which blended nature, travel mem… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources