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Mentioned by Strindberg, Meyer Grafe and others writing on the bohemians in Berlin in the 1890s. Got a reputation as a femme fatale; the myth has long overshadowed her own work as a poet. Translated Karl Gustav Tavaststjerna, Stanslaw Przybyszewski to Norwegian and Sigbjørn Obstfelder to German
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Her poems were translated to English by Hanne Bramness in 1988
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- Buck, Guide to women's literature, 1992
Norwegian writer and translator. Second daughter of a phycisian; niece of the Norwegian prime minister. Grew up at Kongsvinger in Norway. Left Norway for piano studies in Berlin, 1893. Took part in the bohemian circle in "Zum Schwartzen Ferkel" in Berlin (1893). Married the Polish writer Stanisław Przybyszewski (1893). 2 children. Affected by the suicide of her husbands’ mistress, by whom he had 3 children, in 1895.
Lived in Germany (1893-98), for periods also in her parents' home in Norway. Travelled to France, Spain (1898). Moved to Poland in 1898.
Was murdered by a young male admirerer and friend in Tbilisi in 1901.
Modest literary production: 4 prose poems and 2 dramas were published during her life time; another 2 dramas the year after her dearth. Some of her texts were published in Polish and Czech. 13 poems and a short story discovered and published in the 1970s, a last 14th poem in the 1990s.
forfurtherdiscussion: deleted some of thge countries where lived:
Germany
Norway
Paris (FRA)
Poland
Spain
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