Harry Martinson

Harry Martinson (6May 190411February 1978) was a Swedish author, poet and former sailor. In 1949 he was elected into the Swedish Academy. He was awarded a joint Nobel Prize in Literature in 1974 "for writings that catch the dewdrop and reflect the cosmos". 
Martinson killed himself at a Stockholm hospital by cutting his stomach open with a pair of scissors on 11 February 1978.