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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 .
The Emigrants is the collective name of a series of four novels by Swedish author Vilhelm Moberg: The Emigrants (Swedish: Utvandrarna), 1949; Unto a Good Land (title in Swedish: Invandrarna 'The Immigrants'), 1952; The Settlers (Swedish: Nybyggarna), 1956; The Last Letter Home (title in Swedish: Sista brevet till Sverige 'The Last Letter to ...
The Emigrants (Swedish: Utvandrarna, 1949) is a novel by Vilhelm Moberg.It is the first of his four-novel series entitled The Emigrants.In these he explores the causes and process of the major Swedish emigration to the United States beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, and their settling in such frontier areas as the Minnesota Territory.
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather (mid-19th century New Mexico Territory; Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks (abolitionist John Brown, pre-Civil War) The Emigrants series by Vilhelm Moberg (Swedish emigrants in Minnesota, 1850s) The Known World by Edward P. Jones (antebellum Virginia)
The Emigrants (Moberg novel) (1949), (Swedish title: Utvandrarna) Unto a Good Land (1952), (Swedish title: Invandrarna) The Settlers (1956), (Swedish title: Nybyggarna) The Last Letter Home (1959), (Swedish title: Sista brevet till Sverige) The Emigrants, a 1971 film adaption by Jan Troell of Moberg's first two novels
The Last Letter Home (Swedish: Sista brevet till Sverige) is a 1959 historical novel by Swedish writer Vilhelm Moberg. It is the fourth and final novel of his The Emigrants series . It is the shortest book of the four and has a faster pace.
Kristina från Duvemåla ("Kristina from Duvemåla") is a Swedish musical written by former ABBA members Björn Ulvaeus (lyrics) and Benny Andersson (music). It is based on a series of four novels by Swedish author Vilhelm Moberg detailing a family's poverty-driven migration from Sweden to America in the mid-19th century: The Emigrants (1949), Unto a Good Land (1952), The Settlers (1956), and ...
Eva Moberg was the daughter of author Vilhelm Moberg and grew up in Stockholm. She graduated from secondary school in 1952, and in 1963 she became a licentiate of literary history, religious history, and practical philosophy with her thesis Kärlek och kön, en studie i Colettes diktning (English: Love and gender, a study of the poetry of Colette).