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Elsa Grave (17 January 1918 – 17 June 2003) was a Swedish novelist, poet and artist.
Elsa Grave Sällskabet (Elsa Grave Society) in Swedish
{{DEFAULTSORT:Grave, Elsa 1918 births 2003 deaths Swedish women poets Swedish women novelists Swedish women artists 20th-century Swedish poets 20th-century Swedish novelists Modernist poets Modernist women writers 20th-century Swedish women writers People from Bjuv Municipality
Elsa Grave (17 January 1918 – 17 June 2003) was a Swedish novelist, poet and artist.
Biography
Born in 1918, Grave's father, Carl Wolrath Grave, was a mining engineer and her mother, Elsa Regina Järle, a teacher. The family first lived in Gunnarstorp inScania
Scania ( ), also known by its native name of Skåne (), is the southernmost of the historical provinces of Sweden, provinces () of Sweden. Located in the south tip of the geographical region of Götaland, the province is roughly conterminous w ...
, moved to Billesholm in 1929 and to Nyvång near Åstorp
Åstorp is a bimunicipal locality and the seat of Åstorp Municipality in Scania County, Sweden with 9,488 inhabitants in 2010. It is also partly located in Ängelholm Municipality.
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in 1932. In 1938, Grave studied art in Paris and at Isaac Grünewald
Isaac Grünewald (2 September 1889 – 22 May 1946) was a Swedish people, Swedish-Jewish expressionist Painting, painter born in Stockholm. He was the leading and central name in the first generation of Swedish modernists from 1910 up until h ...
's school in Stockholm. In 1942, she graduated in Romance languages and history of art from Lund University
Lund University () is a Public university, public research university in Sweden and one of Northern Europe's oldest universities. The university is located in the city of Lund in the Swedish province of Scania. The university was officially foun ...
.
In 1943, she established herself as an early modernist with her collection ''Inkräktare'' (Intruders). Grave developed her own special symbolic style in poems often critical of Western civilization. She gained fame in 1948 when she published her third collection, ''Bortförklaring'' (Excuse) in 1948, with the poem ''Svinborstnatt'' (Hog's Bristle Night) depicting pigs in a sty which achieve almost human characteristics. A topic she frequently addresses is motherhood, evoking an angry, sorrowful mother painfully performing her tasks, as in ''Den blåa himlen'' (The Blue Sky, 1949), especially in the poem ''Djuphausmakerad'' (Deep Sea Masquerade). By 1989, when she published ''Sataneller'', many critics had had enough of her cruel litanies, full of anger and despondency.
Grave also wrote a novel, ''Ariel'', in 1955 in which the narrator, Marina, seeks freedom from conventional women's roles. Her play ''Fläsksabbat'' (Bacon Sabbath), published in ''Tre lyriska gräl'' (1962), is a devastating criticism of Western materialism conveyed by presenting the gluttonous behaviour of a family at Christmastime.
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Elsa Grave Sällskabet (Elsa Grave Society) in Swedish
{{DEFAULTSORT:Grave, Elsa 1918 births 2003 deaths Swedish women poets Swedish women novelists Swedish women artists 20th-century Swedish poets 20th-century Swedish novelists Modernist poets Modernist women writers 20th-century Swedish women writers People from Bjuv Municipality