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Aniara
Sign in to saveAniara () is a book-length epic science fiction poem written by Swedish Nobel laureate Harry Martinson from 1953 to 1956. It narrates the tragedy of a large passenger spacecraft carrying a cargo of colonists escaping destruction on Earth veering off course, leaving the Solar System and entering into an existential struggle. The style is symbolic, sweeping and innovative for its time, with creative use of neologisms to suggest the science fictional setting. It was published in its final form on 13October 1956.
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- Author
- Harry Martinson
- First published
- 1956
- Editions
- 11
- Subjects
- Translations into English, Swedish fiction, Poetry (poetic works by one author)
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Key facts
- Poem.name
- Aniara
- Poem.image
- Aniara1999En.jpg
- Poem.caption
- The second English translation (1999) with artwork by Paul Joseph Pope
- Poem.author
- Harry Martinson
- Poem.translator
- Hugh MacDiarmid and E. Harley Schubert (1963); Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg (1999)
- Poem.written
- 1953–1956
- Poem.country
- Sweden
- Poem.language
- Swedish
- Poem.genre
- Science fiction
- Poem.publication_date_en
- 1963, 1999
- Poem.isbn
- 1-885266-63-4
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- publication date
- 1956-10-13
- title
- Aniara
- subtitle
- En revy om människan i tid och rum
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11 sectionsContents
- Title
- Interpretation
- The poem
- Translations
- English translations
- Reception
- Legacy
- Adaptations
- References
- External links
- Notes
Aniara () is a book-length epic science fiction poem written by Swedish Nobel laureate Harry Martinson from 1953 to 1956. It narrates the tragedy of a large passenger spacecraft carrying a cargo of colonists escaping destruction on Earth veering off course, leaving the Solar System and entering into an existential struggle. The style is symbolic, sweeping and innovative for its time, with creative use of neologisms to suggest the science fictional setting. It was published in its final form on 13October 1956.
Aniara has been translated to around twenty languages. There are numerous adaptations including an opera in 1959 and a Swedish feature film in 2018.