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Vilhelm Moberg

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Born: August 19 1898

Died: 0707 08 19731973

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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 and Ride This Night , 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 , 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.

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Vilhelm Moberg

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Books from Vilhelm Moberg

The Emigrants

Unto a Good Land

The Settlers

The Last Letter Home

Nybyggarna (Utvandrarna, #3)

Din stund på jorden

Nybyggarna

Raskens: En soldatfamiljs historia

Rid i natt!

Utvandrarna / Invandrarna

From Prehistory to the Renaissance

Sista brevet till Sverige (Utvandrarna, #4)

From Renaissance to Revolution

Romanen om utvandrarna : Nybyggarna & Sista brevet till Sverige

Utvandrarna (The Emigrants, #1)

When I Was A Child: An Autobiographical Novel

La Saga des émigrants, tome 8/8: La dernière lettre au pays natal

The Unknown Swedes: A Book About Swedes and America, Past and Present

Broder Ville, Käre snälle Sven: 26 växlade brev mellan Vilhelm Moberg och Sven Delblanc : samt texter med anknytning till ett seminarium på Väddö folkhögskola

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