WRITER

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 159,571 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 26 in 2019). Vilhelm Moberg is the 2,821st most popular writer (down from 2,502nd in 2019), the 395th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 350th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular Swedish Writer.

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  • 160k

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  • 53.46

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.28

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The last letter home
Fiction, Swedish Americans, History
1959
Min svenska historia
History
1898
Nybyggarna
Fiction, Swedish Americans
1898
Rid i natt!
1941
Unto a good land
Swedish Americans, Fiction, Immigrants
1954
Utvandrarna
Fiction, Emigration and immigration
1949
The last letter home
Fiction, Swedish Americans, History
1959
Unto a good land
Swedish Americans, Fiction, Immigrants
1954
Utvandrarna
Fiction, Emigration and immigration, Fiction, general
1949
Min svenska historia
History, Sweden, history, Histoire
Popular, anecdotal survey of Sweden's history. For contents and vols. in library, see Author Catalog.
1898
Nybyggarna
Fiction, Swedish Americans
1898
Rid i natt!
1941

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Vilhelm Moberg ranks 2,821 out of 7,302. Before him are John Webster, Aleksandër Stavre Drenova, Aleksandar Tišma, Panteleimon Kulish, Benjamin Fondane, and Juan Marsé. After him are Ram Prasad Bismil, Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Jorge Bucay, R. A. Salvatore, Aeneas Tacticus, and Wolfgang Iser.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Vilhelm Moberg ranks 122. Before him are Helmut Hasse, Albert Lutuli, Étienne Decroux, Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz, Irene Dunne, and Benjamin Fondane. After him are José María Gil-Robles y Quiñones, Warren Sturgis McCulloch, Lucius D. Clay, Ben Shahn, Ira Sprague Bowen, and Ada Blackjack. Among people deceased in 1973, Vilhelm Moberg ranks 123. Before him are Karel Ančerl, Robert Watson-Watt, Henry Darger, Johannes Aavik, Âşık Veysel, and Grigori Kozintsev. After him are Alexander Vandegrift, Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu, Nikolay Kamov, Archduchess Isabella of Austria, Jim Croce, and Sergei Tumansky.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Vilhelm Moberg ranks 395 out of 1,879. Before him are Stefan Persson (1947), Sven Rydell (1905), Knut Nordahl (1920), Laurentius Petri (1499), Mai Zetterling (1925), and Frans G. Bengtsson (1894). After him are Tore Keller (1905), Bengt Strömgren (1908), Carl Jonas Love Almqvist (1793), Malena Ernman (1970), Peter Haber (1952), and Sigrid of Sweden (1566).

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Among WRITERS In Sweden

Among writers born in Sweden, Vilhelm Moberg ranks 32. Before him are Jonas Jonasson (1961), Maria Gripe (1923), David Lagercrantz (1962), Marianne Fredriksson (1927), Artur Lundkvist (1906), and Frans G. Bengtsson (1894). After him are Carl Jonas Love Almqvist (1793), Esaias Tegnér (1782), Lars Norén (1944), Åsa Larsson (1966), Gunnar Ekelöf (1907), and Victoria Benedictsson (1850).

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