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Karin Boye (October 26, 1900 - April 24, 1941) was a Swedish poet and novelist.
She was born in Gothenburg, Sweden. In 1932, after the breakup of her marriage, she had a relationship with Gunnel Bergström, the wife of fellow poet Gunnar Ekelöf. She was largely responsible for translating the work of T. S. Eliot into Swedish. She died in an apparent suicide when swallowing sleeping-tablets after that she had left home on April 23. She was found, according to the police report at the Regional Archives in Gothenburg, on April 27, 1941.
Karin Boye is perhaps most famous for her poems of which the most well-known ought to be "Yes, of course it hurts" (Sw. "Ja visst gör det ont") and "In motion" (Sw. "I rörelse") from her collections of poems "The Hearths" (Sw. "Härdarna"), 1927, and "For the tree's sake" (Sw. "För trädets skull"), 1935.
In 2004, one of the branches of the Uppsala University Library was named the Karin Boye Library (Karin Boye-biblioteket) in her honour.
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