Harry Martinson 100 years
6 May 2004 - 4 May 2005
On the 6th May, 100 years after the birth of Harry Martinson, the exhibition "Far from harbours and land ... Harry Martinson 100 years" was opened by Stefan Sandelin - the editor of the author's complete works - in the foyer of Carolina Rediviva. Harriet Martinson, Harry Martinson's daughter, honoured the inauguration with her presence. Martinson's personal papers are preserved at Carolina Rediviva. All in all there are tens of thousands of papers, or around twelve metres of shelving, containing letters, manuscripts, notebooks, travel photographs, newspaper cuttings and publishers' contracts, all of which bear witness to a life of immense literary creativity.
Harry Martinson was a child of the parish who went on to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature, he was also a sailor and a member of the Swedish Academy. The exhibition highlights this nature-loving author's "wanderlust philosophy", beginning with his childhood, then at sea and his years as a sailor and in his environmentally aware poetry.
You can buy the exhibition catalogue from the shop in Carolina Rediviva or order one by phone +46(18)471 3900 or by e-mail.
