Vilhelm Moberg

Vilhelm Moberg was born on 20 August 1898 in Moshultamåla, in the parish of Algutsboda, in Småland, the son of a soldier in the territorial army; all the brothers and sisters of his parents emigrated to America. He worked in the fields and in the forest, attended a folk high school, then joined a newspaper in Vadstena in 1919, of which he became editor-in-chief. A novelist and playwright, he denounced the corruption of the judiciary in the 1950s and defended the republic. He took his own life by drowning, near his home in Väddö, on 8 August 1973.

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• NovelThe EmigrantsUtvandrarnaVilhelm Moberg · 1949Literature