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Harry Martinson

I lived from 1904-1978. I was from Sweden, and am in the European category.

Nobel prize winner for literature in 1974.

My poetry

  • Have you seen a tramp collier come out of a hurricane—
    with broken booms, gunwales shot to pieces,
    10 lines
  • With fright in their eyes
    the soldiers of salvation beheld
    14 lines

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