Samfundet De Nios stora pris (De Nio's Grand Prize)
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Edition 27 (1944) Winner
Moa Martinson
モア・マルティンソン
Moa Marutinson
Aliases:
Helga Maria Swarts
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1890-11-02 （Vårdnäs, Sweden）
- Died
- 1964-08-05 （Sorunda, Sweden） age 73
- Nationality
- Swedish
- Languages
- Swedish
- Religion
- Lutheran Baptized in 1905
- Residence History
- Norrköping → Johannesdal → Stockholm → Sorunda
Career
- Occupations
- author, journalist, pantry chef
- Active Years
- 1927-1959
- Affiliations
- Arbetaren, Central Organisation of the Workers of Sweden
- Memberships
- Labour Party municipal council
- Influenced By
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Émile Zola, Maxim Gorky, Martin Andersen Nexø
- Influenced
- Harry Martinson
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1944 | The Nine Society's Grand Prize | — | — | Samfundet De Nio | 受賞 |
The Nine Society's Grand Prize
1944
Organization:
Samfundet De Nio
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Women and Apple Trees
1933 Proletarian literatureA novel depicting the harsh lives of working-class women.
motherhoodpovertyworking class
My Mother Gets Married
1936 Autobiographical novelA novel about the author's mother's life.
motherhoodpovertyfamily
Adaptations
- [Television series] Mor gifter sig / Per Sjöstrand (1979)
Bibliography
- Maid Mother
- Women and Apple Trees
- Sally's Sons
- Rye Guard
- My Mother Gets Married
- Queen Graygold
- Counterclockwise
- Church Wedding
- The King's Roses
- The Road Under The Stars
- Fire Lilies
- The Army on the Horizon
- The Invisible Lover
- Behind the Swedish Wall
- Love Between Wars
- Life's Feast
- I Meet a Poet
- You are The One
- The Women at Kummelsjö
- Bells at the Silk Road
- The Secret
Adaptations
- Rågvakt (1974, TV film)
- Moa (1986, biographical film)
- Mor gifter sig (1979, TV series)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- realismnaturalismcolloquial style
- Recurring Motifs
- motherhoodpovertyworking-class womenurbanization
Health
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Depression1920s-1930sAffected writing, hospitalization
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Stomach pains, appendicitis1930sBuckshots in appendix, surgery
Legacy
One of Sweden's most noted authors of proletarian literature. Rediscovered as a feminist icon in the 1970s.
In Popular Culture
- Moa Award named after her established in 1989
Quotes
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In the midst of summer, she walks down the eighty steps.
Source: The King's Roses (1939) -
Paradoxically enough, I am mostly indignant not because I was denied the possibility to get a university education, but because I landed right in the same anonymous hell as my mother.
Source: Foreword to My Mother Gets Married (1936)
Trivia
- Married and divorced Harry Martinson
- Two sons drowned
- Youngest pantry chef in Sweden