Swedish poet Helena Boberg was born in 1974 in Stockholm. She is a former member of the Surrealist Group in Stockholm. Her first book, Repulse, was translated into Arabic by Ibrahim Abdulmalik and published by Merit Publishing House in Cairo in 2012, entitled Sodood. Her second book, Sense Violence (Sinnesvåld), was published in 2013 in Sweden. Sense Violence was translated into English by Johannes Göransson and published in the United States in 2020.