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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 four‑volume series The Emigrants.
Karl Artur Vilhelm Moberg, född 20 augusti 1898 i Moshultamåla, Algutsboda församling i Småland, död 8 augusti 1973 i Tomta i Väddö församling, Stockholms län [1], var en svensk författare, journalist och dramatiker.
Vilhelm Moberg was a Swedish novelist and dramatist, best-known for his novels of the Swedish emigration to America but concerned primarily with the people of the countryside from which he came and with the system that made life so miserable for them.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The Emigrants is the collective name of a series of four novels by Swedish author Vilhelm Moberg. Written in the mid-twentieth century, they explore the large Swedish emigration to the United States that started about a century before.
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.
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A collection of four novels by the Swedish author Vilhelm Moberg, depicting the Swedish emigration to North America in the 1850s. Find ratings, reviews, editions, and translations of the series in different languages.
Considered one of Sweden's greatest 20th-century writers, Vilhelm Moberg created the characters Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson to portray the joys and tragedies of daily life for early Swedish immigrants in America.
