Sabitha Söderholm

Sabitha Söderholm was born in India in 1989 and grew up in Denmark. Her first poetry book “Chellam” from 2022 describes a woman's first meeting with her biological mother. Chellam means “my dear” in Tamil and is what parents often call their children. The poetry suite “Månens urt” from 2023 describes the grief after a lost lover. In Söderholm's poetry, love, colonial history, and nature descriptions are intertwined.