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Karin Boye (1900-1941) is an outstanding Swedish writer whose work has had a significant impact on the further development of Swedish literature. The novel Kallokain, first offered to Ukrainian readers, is perhaps her most famous work, the last of her considerable output.

Kallokain appeared in 1940, a year before the writer's death, and became an important participant in the literary dialogue of dystopias of the time - Yevgeny Zamyatin's We, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, and George Orwell's epochal 1984. by George Orwell, which was published nine years after Callocain and is perhaps the closest to the Swedish writer's magnum opus in terms of its style and themes. Because both novels present a grim prophecy of the future of world civilisation, where huge conglomerate states are endlessly waging either "cold" or "hot" wars among themselves, which are in fact just one war for power over their own people.