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Karin Boye
Karin Boye · Ulf Boyes family album., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Person

Karin Boye

1900 – 1941 · aged 41

Swedish poet and novelist (1900–1941)

Born
26 Oct 1900 · place not recorded
Died
24 Apr 1941 · Alingsås
Part ofSweden800 CE – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 47 years
  1. 26 Oct 1900BornBorn
  2. 24 Apr 1941DiedDied in Alingsås

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1900 – 1941).

  1. 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
  2. 1914 – 1918World War I
  3. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  4. 1917Balfour Declaration
  5. 1917February Revolution
  6. 1917October Revolution
  7. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  8. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  9. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  10. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  11. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  12. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  13. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  14. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  15. 1938Munich Agreement
  16. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  17. 1939 – 1945World War II
  18. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  19. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  20. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  21. 1941Operation Barbarossa

Biography

Karin Maria Boye (26 October 1900 – 24 April 1941) was a Swedish poet and novelist. In Sweden, she is acclaimed as a poet, but internationally, she is best known for the dystopian science fiction novel Kallocain (1940).

Text from the Wikipedia article Karin Boye, CC BY-SA 4.0

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