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Harry Martinson
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Harry Martinson (1904 May 6 — 1978) was a Swedish novelist and poet — self-taught, working class writer, awarded the 1974 Nobel Prize with Eyvind Johnson.
A merchant seaman, laborer, and vagrant. Wrote Ghost Ship, Trade Wind, and The Road.
His epic poem "Aniara: A Review of Man in Time and Space" (translated by Hugh MacDiarmid and E. Harley Schubert) depicts the voyage of a generation starship. Karl-Birger Blomdahl based an internationally successful opera upon the poem, featuring pioneering electronic effects.