Karin Boye

Karin Boye was born in Gothenburg on 26 October 1900, the daughter of an engineer, and grew up near Stockholm from 1909. A teacher by training, she studied literature at Uppsala, was active in the socialist movement Clarté and, in the early 1930s, was part of the modernist journal Spektrum, which was open to psychoanalysis; with Erik Mesterton she translated Eliot's The Waste Land. Married in 1929 to Leif Björk, from whom she separated, she underwent psychoanalysis in Berlin in 1932, where she saw the rise of Nazism, and then lived with Margot Hanel. She took her own life near Alingsås in April 1941, at the age of forty.

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