Source: National Archives & Historic Records of Sweden
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Vilhelm Moberg 🇸🇪

Vilhelm Moberg (Known as "Vilhelm Moberg")
Epic Novelist, Dramatist, Historian, Republican Polemicist
Born 1898-08-20 🇸🇪 Moshultamåla, Sweden
Passed Away 1973-08-08 Väddö, Sweden
Lifespan 74 years old
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"Freedom is the air of human dignity; where men cannot speak the truth of their hearts, the land is only a prison."

Archival Overview

Towering Swedish novelist and dramatist whose monumental four-volume 'Emigrants' epic chronicled the 19th-century Swedish exodus to Minnesota, selling millions worldwide.

Biographical Record

Vilhelm Moberg was born on August 20, 1898, in a soldier's cottage in Moshultamåla, Algutsboda, Småland. Working as a farmhand, glassblower, and provincial journalist, his roots in peasant labor shaped his fiery democratic egalitarianism.

Between 1949 and 1959, Moberg published his four-volume masterpiece: Utvandrarna (The Emigrants), Invandrarna (Unto a Good Land), Nybyggarna (The Settlers), and Sista brevet till Sverige (The Last Letter Home). Following Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson's perilous journey from starving Småland to the Minnesota frontier, the epic became the defining chronicle of Scandinavian migration, adapted into Oscar-nominated films by Jan Troell. A fierce anti-royalist and defender of civil liberties, he also authored Min svenska historia.

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Final Resting Place

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Norra begravningsplatsen (Northern Cemetery)
Solna, Sweden
GPS: 59.3612, 18.0275
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