His poetry combined an acute eye for, and love of nature, with a deeply felt humanism. Together with Artur Lundkvist, Gustav Sandgren, Erik Asklund and Josef Kjellgren he authored the anthology Fem unga (Five Youths),which introduced Swedish Modernism. In the city of Malmö, at the age of 21, he was arrested for vagrancy. The headstone on Martinson's grave in Silverdal, Sollentuna - north of StockholmĪ few years later lung problems forced him to set ashore in Swedenwhere he travelled around without a steady employment, at times living as a vagabond on country roads. At the age of sixteen Martinson ran away and signed onto a ship to spend the next years sailing around the world visiting countries such as Brazil and India. At a young age he lost both his parents whereafter he was placed as a foster child (Kommunalbarn) in the Swedish countryside.
Martinson was born in Jämshög, Blekinge County in south-eastern Sweden.
He has been called "the great reformer of 20th century Swedish poetry, the most original of the writers called 'proletarian'." The choice was controversial, as both Martinson and Johnson were members of the academy and had partaken in endorsing themselves as laureates. He was awarded a joint Nobel Prize in Literature in 1974 together with fellow Swede Eyvind Johnson "for writings that catch the dewdrop and reflect the cosmos". In 1949 he was elected into the Swedish Academy. Harry Martinson ( – 11 February 1978) was a Swedish author, poet and former sailor.
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