Nobel laureate · birth-card coordinate
Harry Martinson's Birth Card: The King of Diamonds
The Wealthy King
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict a Nobel Prize.
In the record
Harry Martinson (6 May 1904 – 11 February 1978) was a Swedish writer, poet and former sailor. The birth-card coordinate for May 6 is the King of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1974 Literature prize.
Nobel Prize record
- 1974 The Nobel Prize in Literature — for writings that catch the dewdrop and reflect the cosmos
1974 — The Nobel Prize in Literature
“for writings that catch the dewdrop and reflect the cosmos”
Shared with Eyvind Johnson (Q♥). The award was divided; this laureate's listed portion is 1/2.
116 other Literature laureates in this set carry a birth-card coordinate.
The King of Diamonds coordinate
Harry Martinson's birthday maps to the King of Diamonds (The Wealthy King). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on Harry Martinson. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You run the system and you can show your work.
Harry Martinson in the public record
In 1949 he was elected into the Swedish Academy. He was awarded a joint Nobel Prize in Literature in 1974 together with fellow Swede Eyvind Johnson "for writings that catch the dewdrop and reflect the cosmos". The choice was controversial, as both Martinson and Johnson were members of the academy. He has been called "the great reformer of 20th-century Swedish poetry, the most original of the writers called 'proletarian'." One of his most noted works is the poetic cycle Aniara, which is a story of the spacecraft Aniara that during a journey through space loses its course and subsequently floats on without destination. The book was published in 1956 and became an opera in 1959 composed by Karl-Birger Blomdahl. The cycle has been described as "an epic story of man's fragility and folly".
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Harry Martinson (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 3 of Clubs
A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Harry Martinson, and not a forecast of a Nobel Prize.
Cards in Harry Martinson's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- K♦ — Birth Card: The Wealthy King
- 7♠ — Karma — Environment: The Questioning Mind
- 3♣ — Karma — Displacement: The Creative Communicator
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 2♦ — Life Spread — Mars
- J♠ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 8♣ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 6♦ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 4♠ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 10♥ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 10♦ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.
Ability to articulate complex ideas clearly
Harry Martinson (6 May 1904 – 11 February 1978) was a Swedish writer, poet and former sailor.
Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: writer.
Other laureates with this card
- Albert Schweitzer — 1952 Peace
- George P. Smith — 2018 Chemistry
- Hans Bethe — 1967 Physics
- Heinrich Wieland — 1927 Chemistry
- Hermann Hesse — 1946 Literature
- John R. Hicks — 1972 Economic Sciences
- Julian Schwinger — 1965 Physics
- Kofi Annan — 2001 Peace
- Melvin Calvin — 1961 Chemistry
- Nadia Murad — 2018 Peace
- Paul C. Lauterbur — 2003 Physiology or Medicine
- Ralph M. Steinman — 2011 Physiology or Medicine
- 7 more laureates share this card.
FAQ
- What is Harry Martinson's birth card?
- The King of Diamonds. May 6 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.
- Does a birth card predict a Nobel Prize?
- No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast prizes, character, or fate.
- Where do Harry Martinson's dates come from?
- Birth date 1904-05-06 is the Nobel Prize API v2.1 day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only Nobel dates and Nobel↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Sources: Nobel Prize API v2.1 (laureate 650) + Wikidata CC0 (Q132695) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Harry Martinson). Birth date 1904-05-06 is the Nobel day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).