Edith Södergran

Edith Södergran was born on 4 April 1892 in Saint Petersburg into a Swedish-speaking family, an only child; a pupil at a German school in the city, she first wrote in German. Her father died of tuberculosis in 1907; she contracted it the following year and spent years in sanatoria, at Nummela and then in Switzerland. The revolution of 1917 ruined her family, and she lived in poverty at Raivola, on the Karelian Isthmus, where she died on 24 June 1923, at the age of thirty-one.

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• PoetryDikterEdith Södergran · 1916not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain