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Vilhelm Moberg

1898 - 1973

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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 novels, published between 1949 and 1959, deal with the Swedish emigration to the United States in the 19th century. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vilhelm Moberg has received more than 148,340 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Vilhelm Moberg is the 2,510th most popular writer (down from 2,243rd in 2019), the 351st most popular biography from Sweden (down from 321st in 2019) and the 28th most popular Swedish Writer.

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  • 26

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  • 2.26

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  • 3.86

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Vilhelm Moberg ranks 2,510 out of 5,755Before him are James Aldridge, Jack Williamson, Edgar Lee Masters, Heinrich Hoffmann, Maithili Sharan Gupt, and Félix Fénéon. After him are Sergey Aksakov, Predrag Matvejević, Giovanni Francesco Straparola, Edith Pargeter, Stephenie Meyer, and Gitta Sereny.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Vilhelm Moberg ranks 114Before him are Eric Hoffer, Achille Van Acker, Tian Han, Vladimir Fock, Yitzhak Kaduri, and Paul Robeson. After him are Princess Eudoxia of Bulgaria, Irene Dunne, Benjamin Fondane, Lucius D. Clay, José María Gil-Robles y Quiñones, and Helmut Hasse. Among people deceased in 1973, Vilhelm Moberg ranks 105Before him are Ben Webster, Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, Walter Krüger, Archduchess Isabella of Austria, Gabriel Voisin, and Lorenzo Fernández. After him are Robert Watson-Watt, Mirra Alfassa, Laurens Hammond, Alexander Mosolov, Dean Corll, and Alexander Vandegrift.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Vilhelm Moberg ranks 351 out of 1,612Before him are Princess Elizabeth of Sweden (1549), Alicia Vikander (1988), Lisbeth Palme (1931), Jonas Jonasson (1961), Oskar Backlund (1846), and Kristina Söderbaum (1912). After him are Anders Sparrman (1748), Greta Thunberg (2003), Lena Endre (1955), Ola Ullsten (1931), Evert Taube (1890), and Odd Nerdrum (1944).

Among WRITERS In Sweden

Among writers born in Sweden, Vilhelm Moberg ranks 28Before him are Elsa Beskow (1874), Hjalmar Söderberg (1869), Karin Boye (1900), Sven Nordqvist (1946), Frans G. Bengtsson (1894), and Jonas Jonasson (1961). After him are Esaias Tegnér (1782), Marianne Fredriksson (1927), Carl Jonas Love Almqvist (1793), Victoria Benedictsson (1850), Sven Lindqvist (1932), and Artur Lundkvist (1906).