![]() ![]() Aniara tells the story of a sorrowladen interplanetary vehicle, a refugee ship from stricken Earth to Mars, lost forever in the galactic gloom. But this small work makes the search worthwhile. The only work to be found in English is Martinson’s epic poem Aniara, published in 1956 and translated in 1963. But these two Swedish writers shared the 1974 Nobel Prize in Literature and so ascended to stand with Solzhenitsyn and the rest as Nobel laureates.įor the person who does not read Swedish, assessing these writers is difficult. Judged by standards of household or pulpit familiarity, Harry Edmund Martinson and Eyvind Johnson are scarcely in a class with Alexander Solzhenitsyn, T. ![]()
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