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"Karin Boye is Sweden's greatest woman poet. Born in , she was a poet of ideas, and wrote a powerful prophetic novel, Kallocain. Her involvement in the radical literary and artistic movement Clarte during the s led to her interest in psychoanalysis, which influenced her literary work as well as her personal development during the latter years of her life. Intellectually and emotionally, she was far ahead of her time, and her controversial writings included the novel crisis, in which she depicted the religious turmoil of her adolescence and her discovery of her own bisexuality." "David McDuff's edition shows Karin Boye moving from youthful idealism to a desperate quest. In the early poems, she is a tense modern spirit aroused to strenuous affirmations of absolute ethical loyalties - but prone also to drift passively back into regions of the subconscious and the unconscious, where mysterious natural forces take possession of the human spirit. Her identification with nature's dark but knowing and fertile instincts becomes more complete in her later work, in which serene nature symbolism is mixed with ominously strained elements."--Jacket.… (more)

Poet, novelist, and short-story writer, translator of T.S. Eliot, one of the most original trailblazers of Swedish modernism. Boye's poems were written in a confessional tone and reflected her moods of despair and exaltation, and yearn for spiritual freedom. Her work from the s show the influence of Vilhelm Ekelund (), an advocate of Nietzschean heroism in Sweden. Boye also introduced psychoanalytical ideas into Swedish literature. She died at the age of 41 &#; her death was apparently a suicide.

"Bryt upp, bryt upp! Den nya dage gryr.
O�ndlig �r v�rt stora �ventyr."
(from 'I r�relse')

Karin Boye was born in G�teborg, but she grew up Stockholm where her family moved Boye was brought up in comfortable conditions, her father being a civil engineer, who had a managerial position in an insurance company. Boye's mother was active in women's issues and politics. Even as a young girl and student, she began to write and participate in cultural debates, at first from religious stand point, then rebelling against conservative cultural policy. For a period, she was drawn to Buddhism, but then reaffirmed her Christian faith. At the same time, she struggled to come to terms with her own sexuality. She read Vilhelm Ekelund and Viktor Rydberg, sharing their fascination with the aesthetic ideals of the ancient Greeks, a world where loving the same sex was not a sin. "I don't know if I'm a Christian , but I do know that I belong to God", she wrote in an letter to her friend in The mythological characters of Lilith, Lucifer, and Ilmatar (virgin spirit of the air) from the Finnish epic, the Kalevala, made an appearance in her poems.

After receiving a diploma from a teacher's college in , Boye studied at the Univerity of Uppsala and the University of Stockholm between to , receiving her M.A. in While in Uppsala she joined the Socialist Clart� organization, founded in France by the novelist Henri Barbusse, and wrote for its magazine. I

Swedish poet and novelist (–)

Karin Maria Boye (listen; 26 October – 24 April ) was a Swedish poet and novelist. In Sweden, she is acclaimed as a poet, but internationally, she is best known for the dystopian science fiction novel Kallocain ().

Biography

Early life

Boye was born in Gothenburg (Göteborg), Sweden in a wealthy family and moved with her family to Stockholm in , eventually settling in a house in Huddinge. In Stockholm, she studied at the Åhlinska skolan until She then attended Södra seminariet, a teacher-training programme, in order to become a school teacher. She studied at Uppsala University from to and debuted in with a collection of poems, Moln (Clouds). During her time in Uppsala and until , Boye was a member of the Swedish Clarté League, a socialist group that was strongly antifascist. She was also a member of the women's organization Nya Idun.

Literary career

In , Boye, together with Erik Mesterton and Josef Riwkin, founded the poetry magazine Spektrum, introducing T. S. Eliot and the Surrealists to Swedish readers. She translated many of Eliot's works into Swedish; she and Mesterton translated "The Waste Land".

Boye is perhaps most famous for her poems, the most well-known of which are Ja visst gör det ont (Yes, of course it hurts) and I rörelse (In motion) from her collections of poems Härdarna (The Hearths), , and För trädets skull (For the tree's sake), She was also a member of the Swedish literary institution Samfundet De Nio (The Nine Society) from until her death in

Boye's novel Astarte was a criticism of the bourgeois culture, and won a Nordic novel prize. Her novel Kris (Crisis) depicts her religious crisis and lesbianism. In her novels Merit vaknar (Merit awakens) and För lite (Too little) she explores male and female role-playing.

Outside Sweden, her best-known work is probably the novel Kallo