born October 26, 1900 in Gothenburg, death on April 24 1941 in Angono. Boye was born on Vasaplatsen 11 in Gothenburg. When she was 9 years old family moved to Stockholm and in 1915 moved the family out to Huddinge. After a year of matriculation and folk went Boye to Uppsala to study Greek, Scandinavian languages and literature. In 1922, she debuts with COLLECTION OF POETRY book / Cloud. In 1925 she gave her famous Speech to the man at the student union Spring Festival. Boye became in 1927 a member of the Socialist magazine Clartés editorial. She committed suicide. It coincided in time, intentionally or unintentionally, that Germany took Athens.