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(Language of the event Swedish)

Emil Kléen (1868-1898) was a poet, journalist and author from Sätofta outside Höör in Scania and was active mainly in Lund and Malmö in the late 1800s, close friend of the famous Swedish author August Strindberg and died far too young in the aftermath of tuberculosis and syphilis. He loved absinthe, literature, romanticizing decadence and death in the spirit of Baudelaire, writing sheer poems about girls and the bright nights of June – and he may also have loved men. Was there anything unredeemed in Emil Kléen? This is something that Arvida Juni Svenske, poet, author, journalist and trans person, tries to investigate in her essay in Malmö University's queer anthology. Arvida works as a freelance journalist and is studying to become a Folk High School teacher.