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Vilhelm Moberg


Born
in Moshultamåla, Småland, Sweden
August 20, 1898

Died
August 08, 1973

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Genre
Historical Fiction, History, Fiction


Vilhelm Moberg was a Swedish journalist, author, playwright, historian, and debater best known for his Emigrant series of novels about Swedish emigrants to America. He also wrote other novels and plays and also participated in public debates about the Swedish monarchy, bureaucracy, and corruption. Among other works are Raskens (1927) and Ride This Night (1941), a historical novel of a 17th-century rebellion in Småland 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 ...more

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Average rating: 4.23 · 31,672 ratings · 1,828 reviews · 175 distinct works • Similar authors
The Emigrants (The Emigrant...
4.21 avg rating — 10,583 ratings — published 1949 — 3 editions
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Unto a Good Land (The Emigr...
4.35 avg rating — 6,034 ratings — published 1952 — 77 editions
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The Last Letter Home (The E...
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4.30 avg rating — 4,330 ratings — published 1959 — 47 editions
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The Settlers (The Emigrants...
4.36 avg rating — 4,031 ratings — published 1956 — 52 editions
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Din stund på jorden
3.98 avg rating — 1,482 ratings — published 1963 — 28 editions
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Nybyggarna (Utvandrarna, #3)
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Raskens: En soldatfamiljs h...
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Utvandrarna / Invandrarna (...
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Rid i natt!
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Soldat med brutet gevär
3.98 avg rating — 182 ratings — published 1944 — 11 editions
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“Tag vara på ditt liv! Akta det väl! Slarva inte bort det. För nu är det din stund på jorden!”
― Vilhelm Moberg
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“According to what he tells us himself, Mrs. Fryxell used to say of Napoleon: 'I wish he could be punished for all his slaughter by having to go through a childbirth for every human being who was shot on his account'. (A. Fryxell: Min historias historia).”
― Vilhelm Moberg
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“Dånet och sorlet från havsstranden fyller mina örons snäckor. Men de förmår inte driva undan mina förföljare: Mina tankars frågor ställes och upprepas. Men det finns inga svar åt dem --- de slår sönder sig bara, emot en granithård mur. De kastas tillbaka, sköljs bort. Men de kommer igen, alltid igen, som vågorna utifrån vattenvidden.”
― Vilhelm Moberg, A Time on Earth
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