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. At the age of 24 she released her first collection of poetry entitled Dikter ("Poems"). Södergran died at the age of 31, having contracted tuberculosis as a teenager. She did not live to experience the worldwide appreciation of her poetry, which has influenced many lyrical poets. Södergran is considered to have been one of the greatest modern Swedish-language poets, and her work continues to influence Swedish-language poetry and musical lyrics, for example, in the works of Mare Kandre, Gunnar Harding, Eva Runefelt, Heidi Sundblad-Halme, and Eva Dahlgren.

4 April 1892

Born on the same birth date (4 April 1892): Italo Mus

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Born in the same month (April 1892): Arthur Harris • Corrie ten Boom • Dora Richter • Eugene Houdry • Germaine Tailleferre • Howard Mumford Jones • Italo Mus • Juan Belmonte • Julius Hirsch • Lowell Thomas • Mary Pickford • Raymond Bonney • Richard Neutra • Robert Watson-Watt • Theo Osterkamp • V. Gordon Childe • Vernon Johns