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Sonja Åkesson (19 April 1926 – 5 May 1977) was a Swedish poet, writer, and artist born in Buttle, Gotland.[1][2]

Sonja Åkesson
Sonja Åkesson, 1968.
Born	(1926-04-19)19 April 1926 Buttle, Gotland
Died	5 May 1977(1977-05-05) (aged 51)
Occupation	Poet
Known for	Feminism

Life

Sonja Åkesson first discovered her talent for writing at 28 after moving to Stockholm, after her divorce from Nils Westberg, a carpenter. They had two children at the time of the divorce and Sonja was expecting a baby (not her husband’s). The baby died from leukemia at the age of two.[1]

In 1956, Sonja married Bo Holmberg and had her fourth child, Mikael.[1] The following year she published her first collection of poems: Situationer ("Situations"). In 1963 she became a household name in Sweden after publishing Husfrid. She became known for her distinct style of writing, describing daily life and commenting on society.[3] The feminist movement embraced Åkesson's work and often cited it. The most famous of her poems is probably "äktenskapsfrågan" (the question of marriage).[2] This is often referred to as "vara vit mans slav" (to be the slave of a white man) as this is repeated throughout the poem.

After nine years of marriage, she divorced Bo Holmberg in 1965. She married Jarl Hammarberg, a Swedish artist and poet, and gave birth to her fifth child, Gertie.[1] Sonja Åkesson moved to Halmstad in the 1970s after suffering from mental illness, and in 1977 she died from liver cancer.[1]

Works

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Her works include:[2]

Poetry

• Situationer (1957)
• Glasveranda (1959)
• Husfrid (1963)
• Pris (1968)
• Sagan om Siv (1974)

Prose

• Skvallerspegel (1960)
• Leva livet (1961)
• Efter balen (1962)

Her manuscripts and other papers are held within the Women’s History Collections, Gothenburg University, Sweden.[4]

References

Further reading

• Sonja Bertha Maria Åkesson at Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon

На других языках

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[ru] Окессон, Соня

Соня О́кессон (швед. Sonja Åkesson, 19 апреля 1926 — 5 мая 1977) — шведская поэтесса, писательница и художница .

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