Martinson, Moa

Martinson, Moa

▪ Swedish author
original name  Helga Swartz  
born Nov. 2, 1890, Vardnass, Swed.
died Aug. 5, 1964, Södertälje

      Swedish novelist who was among the first to write about the agricultural labourer, the landless worker of the Swedish countryside known as statare. The first half of her life was filled with poverty and misery, yet she retained an ability to write about the life of the workers with warmth and humour.

      The mother of five children, she was widowed at 25 and struggled to support her family. After her second marriage, to the proletarian writer Harry Martinson (divorced 1940), she began a literary career and took the name Moa Martinson. Her most successful work is the autobiographical trilogy Mor gifter sig (1936; “Mother Gets Married”), Kyrkbröllop (1938; “Church Wedding”), and Kungens rosor (1939; “The King's Roses”). Her later novels were about proletarian characters of the 18th and 19th centuries.

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