Vilhelm Moberg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Vilhelm Moberg

Swedish author and historian

Date of Birth: 20-Aug-1898

Place of Birth: Moshultamåla, Kalmar County, Sweden

Date of Death: 08-Aug-1973

Profession: writer, historian, playwright, journalist, autobiographer

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Vilhelm Moberg

  • Karl Artur Vilhelm Moberg (20 August 1898 – 8 August 1973) was a Swedish journalist, author, playwright, historian, and debater.
  • His literary career, spanning more than 45 years, is associated with his series The Emigrants.
  • The four books, published between 1949 and 1959, deal with the Swedish emigration to the United States in the 19th century, and are the subject of two movie adaptations and a musical.
  • Among other works are Raskens (1927) and Ride This Night (1941), a historical novel of a 17th-century rebellion in SmÃ¥land acknowledged for its subliminal but widely recognised criticism against the Hitler regime. A noted public intellectual and debater in Sweden, he was noted for very vocal criticism of the Swedish monarchy (most notably after the Haijby affair), likening it with a servile government by divine mandate, and publicly supporting its replacement with a Swiss-style confederal republic.
  • He spoke out aggressively against the policies of Nazi Germany, the Greek military junta, and the Soviet Union, and his works were among those destroyed in Nazi book burnings.
  • In 1971, he scolded Prime Minister Olof Palme for refusing to offer the Nobel Prize in Literature to its recipient Alexander Solzhenitsyn – who was refused permission to attend the ceremony in Stockholm – through the Swedish embassy in Moscow. Moberg's suicide by self-inflicted drowning also drew much attention.
  • He had had a long struggle with depression and writer's block.

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