1. Karl Artur Vilhelm Moberg was a Swedish journalist, author, playwright, historian, and debater.
19 Facts About Vilhelm Moberg
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Vilhelm Moberg 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.
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Vilhelm Moberg had had a long struggle with depression and writer's block.
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Karl Artur Vilhelm Moberg was born in 1898 on a farm outside of the town Emmaboda in the Parish of Algutsboda in Smaland, in southern Sweden.
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Vilhelm Moberg was the fourth child of six, of whom only three survived into adulthood.
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Vilhelm Moberg lived the first nine years of his life at the tenement soldier's cottage in Moshultamala that his father Karl Moberg, a territorial soldier, took over in 1888.
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Vilhelm Moberg worked as a farmer and forest laborer, and later at glassblowing before and between his various studies.
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Vilhelm Moberg contracted the Spanish flu in 1918, and was sick for half a year.
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In 1926, Vilhelm Moberg made his breakthrough as a playwright when his comedy Kassabrist had a successful run in Stockholm.
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Vilhelm Moberg published his first novel Raskens the following year.
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Vilhelm Moberg had intended the history to have more volumes, but he never finished it.
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Vilhelm Moberg had become a member of a young Social Democrats club in 1913.
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Vilhelm Moberg was strongly influenced by the facts that surfaced in the Kejne affair and Haijby affair, in which Moberg took an active part.
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Vilhelm Moberg's novels are important documents of social history, and trace the influences of various social and political movements in Sweden.
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Vilhelm Moberg lived for a time in the guesthouse of Gustaf Lannestock, his friend and translator, at 26085 Scenic Road.
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Several other works by Vilhelm Moberg have been turned into films and TV series in Sweden over the years.
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The Vilhelm Moberg Society, headquartered in the Swedish Emigrant Institute, promotes publications, research and popular interest in Moberg's works.
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Vilhelm Moberg struggled with severe depression in the last years of his life.
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Vilhelm Moberg committed suicide by drowning himself in the sea outside his house.