Karin Boye [1900-1941] was a Swedish poet and novelist best known for her poems and her novel "Kallocain" inspired by her visit to the Soviet Union in 1928 and her visit to Germany during the rise of the Nazis. The novel was filmed in Sweden in 1981. Until 1930, Boye was a member of the Swedish Clarte League, a socialist group. Together with Erik Mesterton and Josef Riwkin, she founded the poetry magazine Spektrum in 1931, and she was a member of the Swedish literary institution Samfundet De Nio from 1931 until her death.
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Keywords: LITERATURE; SCANDINAVIAN LITERATURE; SWEDISH LITERATURE; KARIN BOYE; SWEDISH AUTHOR; NOVELIST; POET; BIOGRAPHY; MARGIT ABENIUS.