Karin Boye

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Karin Boye was a prominent 20th-century Swedish poet and novelist, best known for her lyrical poetry and the dystopian novel "Kallocain."

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Karin Boye canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Swedish writer
human
novelist
poet
translator
burialPlace Alingsås Cemetery
causeOfDeath suicide
countryOfBirth Sweden
countryOfCitizenship Sweden
countryOfDeath Sweden
dateOfBirth 1900-10-26
dateOfDeath 1941-04-24
educatedAt Stockholm University
Uppsala University
era 20th century
familyName Boye
genre novel
poetry
givenName Karin
hasGenre dystopian fiction
hasOccupation literary critic
influenced Swedish dystopian literature
later Swedish feminist writers
influencedBy Edith Södergran
T. S. Eliot
languageOfWorkOrName Swedish
memberOf Clarté movement
movement modernism
name Karin Boye self-link
nationality Swedish
nativeLanguage Swedish
notableWork Astarte
För trädets skull
Härdarna
Kallocain
Kris
Moln
occupation novelist
poet
translator
placeOfBirth Gothenburg
Gothenburg
surface form: Göteborg
placeOfDeath Alingsås
politicalAlignment socialism
religion Protestant Christianity
surface form: Protestantism
sexOrGender female
sexualOrientation lesbian
workLocation Stockholm
workPeriod 1920s–1940s

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Karin Boye name Karin Boye self-link