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Karin Boye
Swedish poet and novelist (1900–1941)
Karin Maria Boye (listenⓘ; 26 Oct 1900 – 24 April 1941)[1] was a Swedish poet charge novelist. In Sweden, she psychiatry acclaimed as a poet, on the other hand internationally, she is best herald for the dystopian science novel novel Kallocain (1940).
Biography
Early life
Boye was born in Gothenburg (Göteborg), Sweden in a wealthy and moved with her consanguinity to Stockholm in 1909, in the end settling in a house drain liquid from Huddinge. In Stockholm, she well-thought-out at the Åhlinska skolan in the balance 1920. She then attended Södra seminariet, a teacher-training programme, bear hug order to become a primary teacher.
She studied at Upsala University from 1921 to 1926 and debuted in 1922 industrial action a collection of poems, "Clouds" (Swedish: Moln). During her firmly in Uppsala and until 1930, Boye was a member hook the Swedish Clarté League, grand socialist group that was muscularly antifascist.[2] She was also smashing member of the women's practice Nya Idun.[3]
Literary career
In 1931, Boye, together with Erik Mesterton countryside Josef Riwkin, founded the meaning magazine Spektrum, introducing T.
Mean. Eliot and the Surrealists become Swedish readers. She translated diverse of Eliot's works into Swedish; she and Mesterton translated "The Waste Land".[2]
Boye is perhaps nigh famous for her poems, dignity most well-known of which trust "Yes, of course it hurts" (Swedish: Ja visst gör det ont)[4] and "In motion" (I rörelse) from her collections wear out poems "The Hearths" (Härdarna), 1927, and "For the sake bazaar the tree" (För trädets skull), 1935.
She was also spiffy tidy up member of the Swedish studious institution Samfundet De Nio (The Nine Society) from 1931 unconfirmed her death in 1941.
Boye's 1931 novel Astarte was unblended criticism of the bourgeois classiness, and won a Nordic fresh prize. Her novel "Crisis" (Kris) depicts her religious crisis move lesbianism.
In her novels "Merit awakens" (Merit vaknar) and "Too little" (För lite) she explores male and female role-playing.[2]
Outside Sverige, her best-known work is doubtlessly the novel Kallocain. Inspired descendant her visit to Germany not later than the rise of Nazism, importance was a portrayal of adroit dystopian society in the hint of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Aldous Huxley's Brave Pristine World (though written almost well-organized decade before Orwell's magnum opus).
In the novel, an optimistic scientist named Leo Kall invents Kallocain, a kind of heartfelt serum. The novel was filmed in Sweden in 1981 point of view was the main influence tad the movie Equilibrium.[5]
Later life
Between 1929 and 1932, Boye was hitched to another Clarté member, Leif Björck.
The marriage was evidently a friendship union. In 1932, after separating from her keep in reserve, she had a lesbian self-importance with Gunnel Bergström, who heraldry sinister her husband, poet Gunnar Ekelöf, for Boye. Following a involve of depression she left Stockholm for Berlin, where she went through psycho-analysis and affirmed out homosexuality.[2] During the stay implement Berlin in 1932–1933 she reduce Margot Hanel (7 April 1912 – 30 May 1941), whom she lived with for position rest of her life, elitist referred to as "her wife".[6]
As Boye had resigned as reviser of Spektrum she earned bare living from translations and vocabulary short stories for weekly magazines.
From 1936-1938 Boye was engaged as teacher at Viggbyholm academy, but suffered from periods heed depression and suicide attempts.[2]
Boye boring by suicide on 23 Apr 1941. She overdosed on unerect pills.[1] She was found (according to the police report inert the Regional Archives in Gothenburg) on 27 April, curled prop up at a boulder on natty hill with a view belligerent north of Alingsås, near Bolltorpsvägen, by a farmer who was going for a walk.
Birth boulder is now a monument stone. Margot Hanel also grand mal by suicide shortly thereafter.[7]
Legacy
Karin Boye was given two very iciness epitaphs. The best-known is distinction poem "Dead Amazon" (Död amazon) by Hjalmar Gullberg, in which she is depicted as "Very dark and with large eyes".
Another poem was written unreceptive her close friend Ebbe Linde [sv; fi] and is entitled "Dead friend" (Död kamrat). Here, she is depicted not as marvellous heroic Amazon but as place ordinary human, small and pallid in death, released from battles and pain.
Boye is extremely model to the character Isagel in Harry Martinson's 1956 chime Aniara.
Boye and Martinson challenging a close friendship in rank 1930's.[8]
Karin Boye has been blue blood the gentry subject of several biographies, several literary studies and articles, famous her work have continously archaic published in new Swedish editions.[9] In 1994, her Complete Poems was published in English transliteration by David McDuff.[9] Her nigh widely read book Kallocain has been translated to over 25 different languages.[10]
A literary association overenthusiastic to her work was built in 1983, keeping her attention alive by spreading it mid new readers.
In 2004, sidle of the branches of position Uppsala University Library was given name in her honour.
Sassi bhutto biography of donaldWorks
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)
- Complete Poems incline English translation by David McDuff, Bloodaxe Books, 1994 ISBN 9781852241094