born October 26, 1900 in Gothenburg, dead 23 or April 24, 1941 in Alingsås, each one Swedish author. Most well-known as poet, but also authors to a majority novels and essays.
Biography when Karin Boye was nine years the old moved family to Stockholm. Her father Carl Fredrik “Fritz” Boye and her mother Signe came both from families of landed officials. Karin thought that she became “överexemplariskt” dealt with. She had high grades in the school. The brother Sven were given birth to January 17, 1903. Hennes others brother Ulf were given birth to August 12, 1904. Then, she went in halls small school.
1915 took up residence the family in the suburb municipality Huddinge, southwester about Stockholm, on that place there today Sjödalsgymnasiet lies. There in a forest slope with birches, straight road-strip adult furor and oaks had the built one mound traveled illusion building, faluröd with white kinks and list agencies. The family gave its new abode the name Björkebo. There, she typed a lot youth poetry, short stories and theatre plays and drew and painted watercolours.
Karin Boye engendered student diploma 1920 and folkskollärarinneexamen 1921. Then departed Boye to Uppsala in order to study Greek, nordic languages and literature history. She took one philosophical office diploma wide Stockholms college 1928.
1922 made ones debut she with the collection of poem clouds that a provided young peoples brooding over god, the lifes deficiencies and its own future. But where was also her special distinctive features and reason circuits, formal is noticed those the easy liquid rhymes and the tendency to letter rhymes (that would be strengthened when she might read Eddans poems on Icelandic in Uppsala). But before is the special rhythm hitting, where for example emphasized syllables replaces each other. 1925 held she your well-known numbers to the man the wide student shivers spring fairy pcs. The first novel, Astarte, pinch got in a nordic novel pinch competition 1931.title of the poem seems to have started around 1938 and remained unfinished despite intensive work) Aggregate writings IX, 1948-50, published by Margit Abenius Translations:
Bergtagen of Thomas Mann, 1929 The fate of the country (The Wasteland) of T.S. Eliot - along with Erik Mesterton, in the journal Spectrum 1932.
Monuments Karin Boyes bornhause in Gothenburg, memorial plaque at the house on Vasaplatsen 11 in Gothenburg. Karin Boyes trees in Uppsala, was planted outside the Carolina Rediviva May 18, 1985. Karin Boyes statue in the center of Huddinge Peter Linde built in 1980. At the close since Facings are plaques with poems by her. Karin Boyes statue in Gothenburg, by Peter Linde built in 1987. Karin Boyes Statue at Stockholm University of Ylva Lindgren and Jan-Erik Björk built in 2000. Karin Boyes memorial stone in Angono, the stone Karin Boye was found dead next April 25, 1941. Karin Boye-room in Huddinge Karin Boye Library in Uppsala since 2004. Karin Boyes street in Fruängen svenska » engelska Översätt
1927 became Karin Boye member of it socialistiska the magazine Clartés rode campaign. She was also with and based the time shifts/the publish house spectrums, and was included in its rode campaign 1931-32 and contributed with a part of the capital for this initiative (her father had died 1928 and the inherited money from him done her financially independent during some years). 1931 became she also invald in samfundet they nine.
During a sojourn in Berlin 1932-1933 took she the stage to living with itself homosexualitet, on a clearer ways than earlier. Her marriages with Leif birch dissolved during Berlinåret, and when she returned to Sweden where she, as the friends experienced it, changed: more generous, less interested of it active marxistiska the side in Clarté, and perhaps more sårbar than earlier. After a time, she invited in one young tysk-judisk woman, Margot Hanel, that she met and “seduced” (her own expressions) in Berlin, and they come since living together in principle until Boyes dead - this at one time then homosexualitet still each one fracture in Sweden.
Boy had probably been aware about a homosexual or bisexual side at itself since the time for the debut book, but it was a draw she had difficultly to in practice to accept because it seemed to require of her that she would live as a man, moreover where the difficult to speak openly about the thing.Margit Abenius, as known Boye from student small river clean and ahead and strong come to influence the picture of her, traces this problem from her tonne oar poems and ahead. Already in those poems and legends she typed in the tonne years identifies herself Boye very often with male heroes and their victim documents can often be seen that erotic loaded.
Abenius means that the struggle between being your faithful own choices, also the unconscious choices, and itself own convincing electricity to see - “to live straight” with Boyes expressions - and those extraneous moral requirements that we gladly want to take on us (överjaget at Freud) - an important conflict line from the debut book and ahead - has a part to do with Boyes understanding about your prohibited desire. Boy does an alone similar interpretation in crisis, but since it is typed precisely after Berlinåret can one not without furthermore ensure the novel that key that crisis Boye underwent at the start of 1921 (and that she a done first analysis of in a letter to the friend Agnes Fellenius). Meanwhile in Berlin, she underwent also certain psycho analytical treatment, and could to attest nazismens breakthroughs on near directions.
Karin Boyes most well-known poem is probably “yes, certain do the evil when knobs bursts” from the concentration for the trees sake, followed of “in business”. Of the prose agencies, they are most well-known the the partial alone biographical novel crisis and muck backstop in Kallocain.
As essäist syssla she in front with literature analyses and the psycho the analytical effect on modernismen; she was also active as critics. Karin Boye is counted to the other generations Swedish modernister (after Lagerkvist and Sjöberg in the first balance).
Karin Boye died after an overdose of torpor pills (probably suicides) after to have submitted its home April 23, 1941. According to the regional archive in Gothenburg found Karin Boyes lifeless body at a big stone on a hill north about Alingsås. She had at this period a love affair with Margot Hanel, that also she shortly then carried out an act suicides.
One vers from Boyes postumt given poem bike the the seven death sins (“whatever is scattered and divided”) be included as s.k. reading hymn in hymns and songs 76. It was not included however in the finally assumed 1986 years Psalmbok. A statue over Karin Boye stands rest at Stadsbiblioteket Gothenburg, near Götaplatsen.
Owner of the copyright to all Karin Boyes agencies are her brother, Ulf Boye.
Extracts from the hearths
” from one stygg girl I hope you not at all has it good. I hope you lie vaken that I and knows you funny fond and stirred and yr and nervous and very disturbed. And court that it is, so sheep you sudden to put you correct in order to sova good. I hope it dwells a small while… I hope you not sheep a wink! ” - Karin Boye, the hearths Bibliografi [edit] novels:
Astarte, 1931 qualification vaknar, 1933 crisis, 1934 for little, 1936 Kallocain, 1940 collections of poem:
Clouds, 1922 hidden country, the 1924 hearths, 1927 for the trees sake, 1935 the the seven death sins and other poems, 1941 (posthumt given of Hjalmar Gullberg;
