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Södergran, Edith

Country/Region:
Finland, Russia
Born:
April 4, 1892
Dead:
June 24, 1923
Genres:
Poetry
The Finland-Swedish poet Edith Södergran was born in St. Petersburg, but her family soon moved to the village of Raivola on the Carelian Isthmus. In 1902-08, she attended a German-speaking religious school in St. Petersburg, with students from different countries and of different creeds. In 1907, her father died in tuberculosis, and in the following year the same disease was diagnosed in the daughter. The period 1909-14 Edith Södergran spent at sanatoria in her own country and in Swiss Davos, an environment which strengthened her cosmopolitan disposition. After her return home in 1914, she began living more and more isolated together with her mother in Raivola, where she died.

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