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Edith Södergran
Edith Irene Södergran was a Swedish-speaking Finnish poet. One of the first modernists within Swedish-language literature, her influences came from French Symbolism, German expressionism, and Russian futurism. She was fluent in French, English and Russian. At the age of 24 she released her first collection of poetry entitled Dikter ("Poems"). Södergran died at the age of 31, having contracted tube…
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culture · Finnish poet (1892–1923) · poet · writer · also Edith Södergran, Edith Irene Södergran, Södergran
Born 4 April 1892 · Died 24 June 1923 · Q466595
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1961· 1 entry
By Olof Enckell (with the title "Ungdomsdikter 1907–1909" (Childhood poems 1907–1909)
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1949· 1 entry
In Helsinki; it contained everything that had previously come out in book form, plus some of Södergran's unpublished poems, of which a dozen would not be printed again until fifty years later
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1940· 1 entry
The village became Soviet territory and to this day belongs to Russia (the area has become urbanized since 1950 and most visible traces of the village that existed in Södergran's day are now long gone)
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1923· 1 entry
Died 1923-06-24.
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1918· 1 entry
And even later Edith was able to hear gunfire from her kitchen window
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1917· 2 entries
Edith and her mother's economic assets were suddenly rendered worthless since they had been placed in Ukrainian securities; and soon after, from the spring of 1918, the Karelian Isthmus became a war zone
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Edith wrote two poems, Trädet i skogen ("The Tree in the Forest") and Fragment av en stämning ("Fragment of a Mood"), which expresses her sorrow and conflicted memories of her time in Switzerland
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1904· 1 entry
Her father was diagnosed with tuberculosis, and in May 1906 he was admitted to Nummela sanatorium in Uusimaa
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1902· 1 entry
Edith began her schooling in Die deutsche Hauptschule zu St
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1892· 1 entry
Born 1892-04-04.
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