caption death_date death_place birth_place awards birth_date image article_title name spouses
harry martinson in the early 1940s . 11 february 1978 stockholm , sweden jämshög , sweden nobel johnson -rrb- prize in literature 1974 -lrb- shared with eyvind 6 may 1904 20120807084529 ! martinson , harry i vj 1943.jpg harry martinson
 harry martinson moa martinson -lrb- 1929 -- 1940 -rrb- ingrid lindcrantz
harry martinson

harry martinson -lrb- 6 may 1904 -- 11 february 1978 -rrb- was a swedish author , poet and former sailor .
in 1949 he was elected into the swedish academy .
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 '' .
the choice was controversial , as both martinson and johnson were members of the academy and had partaken in endorsing themselves as laureates .
he has been called `` the great reformer of 20th century swedish poetry , the most original of the writers called ` proletarian ' . ''
