Rid i natt vilhelm moberg biography

PERSONAL: Born August 20, 1898, in Algutsboda, Sweden; died in a drowning accident, August 8 1973, near Stockholm, Sweden; son of Karl (a soldier and farmer); married Margareta Toernqvist, 1923.

CAREER: Novelist and playwright.

Worked as a farmhand, a forest worker, and a journalist.

WRITINGS:

IN ENGLISH

Mans kvinna, [Sweden], 1933, translation by M. Heron published as Fulfillment, 1953.

Romanen om Knut Toring (autobiographical), Bonnier (Stockholm, Sweden), Volume I: Sänkt sedebetyg, 1935, translation by Edwin Björkman published as Memory of a Youth, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1937, Volume II: Sömnlös, 1937, reprinted, 1975, Volume III: Giv oss jorden!, 1939, reprinted, 1971, translation of entire trilogy of Björkman published in one volume as The Earth Is Ours, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1940.

Rid i natt!, Bonnier (Stockholm, Sweden), 1941, translation by Henry Alexander published as Ride