Moa Martinson

Moa Martinson was born Helga Maria Swartz on 2 November 1890 in Vårdnäs, near Linköping, the daughter of a nineteen-year-old maidservant who had to entrust her to her own parents. In 1910 she moved in with a foundation worker, by whom she had five sons and whom she did not marry until 1922; the two youngest drowned in 1925 and their father took his own life in January 1928. Elected to the municipal council of her parish, she wrote in the left-wing press and took the first name Moa in 1927. Remarried in 1929 to the poet Harry Martinson, she divorced him in 1941. She received the Grand Prize of the Nine in 1944 and died in Sorunda on 5 August 1964.

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• NovelKvinnor och äppelträdMoa Martinson · 1933not translated into EnglishLiterature