Edith Södergran (Saint Petersburg, 1892 - Raivola, 1923). His first forays into the world of letters took place in 1902 after having entered the prestigious German Petri-Schule in his hometown, an institution where he learned English, French, Russian and German. At that time, the young woman, influenced by Heinrich Heine and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, began to write her first poems in German, but, over time, the author would adopt the Swedish language, her mother's language, for her literary production. . Poems and The September Lyre (work that she created in the midst of depression and extreme poverty as a result of the Russian revolution of 1917) are the best-known works of this author who, in the early 1920s, became a member of the Anthropology Society.