Quote of the day
The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
Harry Martinson
Born: May 6, 1904
Died: February 11, 1978 (aged 73)
Bio: Harry Martinson 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".
Known for:
- Aniara (1956)
- Flowering Nettle (1935)
- The Road (1948)
- Fem unga
- Wild Bouquet: Nature Poems