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Also Known As	Harry Edmund Martinson
Born	May 6, 1904 • Sweden
Died	February 11, 1978 (aged 73) • Stockholm • Sweden
Awards And Honors	Nobel Prize (1974)
Notable Works	“Aniara, A Review of Man in Time and Space” • “The Road”

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