Sonja Åkesson [SEP] place of death
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. Sonja Åkesson moved to Halmstad in the 1970s after suffering from mental illness, and in 1977 she died from liver cancer.
Works.
Her works include:
Works Poetry.
- " Situationer "(1957)
- " Glasveranda "(
Sonja Åkesson
Sonja Åkesson (19April 19265May 1977) was a Swedish poet, writer, and artist born in Buttle, Gotland.
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.
In 1956, Sonja married Bo Holmberg and had her fourth