Karin Maria Boye   listen^? (October 26, 1900 - April 24, 1941) was a Swedish poet and novelist. To play the audio file do not click on the -image. ... Image File history File links Sv-Karin Boye. ... October 26 is the 299th day of the year (300th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 66 days remaining. ... 1900 is a common year starting on Monday. ... April 24 is the 114th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (115th in leap years). ... 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Poets are authors of poems, or of other forms of poetry such as dramatic verse. ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ...

She was born in Gothenburg, Sweden and moved with her family to Stockholm in 1909. She studied at the university in Uppsala from 1921 to 1926 and debuted in 1922 with a collection of poems, "Clouds" (Sw. "Moln"). During her time in Uppsala and until 1930, Boye was a member of the socialist group Clarté. Between 1929 and 1934 Boye was married to another Clarté member, Leif Björck. The marriage was apparently a friendship union. In 1932, after separating from her husband, she had a relationship with Gunnel Bergström, who left her husband, poet Gunnar Ekelöf for Boye. Gothenburg viewed from Liseberg amusement park Gothenburg (Swedish: Göteborg   listen? ; UN/LOCODE: SE GOT) is a city and a municipality on the western coast of Sweden, in the County of Västra Götaland. ... 1932 is a leap year starting on a Friday. ... Gunnar Ekelöf (Stockholm, September 15, 1907 - Sigtuna, March 16, 1968) was a Swedish poet and writer. ...

In 1931 Boye, togehter with Erik Mesterton and Josef Riwkin, founded the poetry magazine Spektrum, introducing T.S. Eliot and the Surrealists to Swedish readers. Together with the critic Erik Mesterton, she translated Eliot's "The Waste Land". She was largely responsible for translating the work of T. S. Eliot into Swedish. Thomas Stearns Eliot (September 26, 1888 - January 4, 1965), was a major Modernist Anglo-American poet, dramatist, and literary critic. ...

Karin Boye is perhaps most famous for her poems, of which the most well-known ought to be "Yes, of course it hurts" (Sw. "Ja visst gör det ont") and "In motion" (Sw. "I rörelse") from her collections of poems "The Hearths" (Sw. "Härdarna"), 1927, and "For the tree's sake" (Sw. "För trädets skull"), 1935. She was also a member of the Swedish literary institution Samfundet De Nio (chair number 6) from 1931 until her death in 1941.

Boye's novel "Crisis" (Sw. "Kris") depicts her religious crisis and lesbianism. In her novels "Merit awakens" (Sw. "Merit vaknar") and "Too little" (Sw. "För lite") she explores male and female role-playing.

Outside Sweden, her best-known work is probably the novel "Kallocain". Inspired by the rise of national socialism in Germany, it was a portrayal of a dystopian society in the vein of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Huxley's Brave New World (though written before both of those books). In the novel, an idealistic scientist named Leo Kall invents Kallocain, a kind of truth serum. The classic Swedish novel Kallocain envisioned a future of drab terror. ... National socialism may refer to: Nazism, the political ideology of the German Nazi Party of the 1930s to 1940s. ... A centennial printing of Nineteen Eighty-Four Nineteen Eighty-Four (often 1984) is a political novel written by George Orwell. ... Book cover of Aldous Huxleys Brave New World. ... This article is about the profession. ...

She died in an apparent suicide when swallowing sleeping-pills after leaving home on April 23, 1941. She was found, according to the police report at the Regional Archives in Gothenburg, on April 27, curled up at a boulder on a hill with a view just north of Alingsås, near Bolltorpsvägen, by a farmer who was going for a walk. The boulder is now a memorial stone. Karin Boye was given two very different epitaphs. The most well known is the poem "Dead amazon" (Sw. "Död amazon") by the poet Hjalmar Gullberg, in which she is depicted as "Very dark and with large eyes". Another poem was written by her close friend Ebbe Linde and is entitled "Dead friend" (Sw. "Död kamrat"). Here, she is depicted not as a heroic amazon but as an ordinary human, small and grey in death, released from battles and pain. The Death of Socrates by Jacques-Louis David, 1787 Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of willfully ending ones own life; it is sometimes a noun for one who has committed or attempted the act. ... AlingsÃ¥s is a Municipality in Västra Götaland County, in western Sweden. ...

In 2004, one of the branches of the Uppsala University Library was named the Karin Boye Library (Karin Boye-biblioteket) in her honour. Literary association Karin Boye sällskapet (the Karin Boye society) was founded in 1983 and is dedicated to contributing to keeping Karin Boye´s work alive spreading it among new readers.

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Works

Novels:

• Astarte, 1931
• Merit vaknar, 1933
• Kris, 1934
• För lite, 1936
• Kallocain, 1940

Collections of poems:

• Moln, 1922
• Gömda land, 1924
• Härdarna, 1927
• För trädets skull, 1935
• De sju dödssynderna, 1941 (not completed, posthumously published)

References

• Abenius, Margit. 1965. Karin Boye. Stockholm, Sweden. Bokförlaget Aldus/Bonniers.
• Hammarström, Camilla. 2001. Karin Boye. Stockholm, Sweden. Bokförlaget Natur och Kultur. ISBN 91-27-08935-5.

External links

• The Karin Boye Society
• David McDuff's English translations of Karin Boye's poems