Vilhelm Moberg
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Vilhelm Moberg (August 20, 1898 - August 8, 1973) was a Swedish author.
Moberg's most famous work is a series of four novels (1949-1959) that describe one Swedish family's migration from Smalandia to Minnesota in the late 19th century, a destiny shared by almost one million people, including several of the author's relatives. The musical Kristina from Duvemåla by ex-ABBA members Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson is based on this story. These novels have been translated to English (The Emigrants, 1951, Unto a Good Land, 1954, The Settlers, 1961, The Last Letter Home, 1961) as have some of his other works.
With a working class background, Moberg started out as a newspaper editor (in 1919). His first novel (Raskens) appeared in 1927. In his works, he often expressed a republican (anti-royalist) point of view, much due to the facts that surfaced in the Kejne affair and Haijby affair, in which Moberg took an active part.
On his passing (suicide) in 1973, Vilhelm Moberg was interred in the Norra begravningsplatsen in Stockholm.
External links
- Vilhelm Moberg (http://www.sweden.se/templates/FactSheet____4330.asp) - a presentation at Sweden.se
- Kristina from Duvemåla (http://www.duvemala.com/eng/) - the musicalde:Vilhelm Moberg