Olle Hedberg Explained

Olle Hedberg
Birth Date:31 May 1899
Birth Place:Norrköping, Sweden
Birth Name:Carl Olof Hedberg
Death Place:Verveln, Sweden
Nationality:Swedish
Language:Swedish
Notableworks:Iris och löjtnantshjärta
Ut med blondinerna!
Bekänna färg
Spouse:Ruth Hedberg

Carl Olof "Olle" Hedberg (31 May 1899 in Norrköping, Sweden – 20 September 1974 in Verveln, Östergötland, Sweden) was a Swedish author.

Hedberg is known as a probing satirist of the middle class and conventional world in general. His first novel, Rymmare och fasttagare (Prisoner's base), was published in 1930, and from then on would write a novel every year for the next several decades. His works of the 1940s entail a search for religious and moral values.[1] Bekänna färg (Show one’s hand), published in 1947, is considered to be one of his most important novels from this period.

His works do not aspire to a philosophical greatness. Rather he himself is more of a realist and a disenchanted moralist.[2] He was a member of the Swedish Academy from 1957.

Hedberg committed suicide 1974, a few weeks after his daughter Birgitta succumbed to a sudden illness.[3]

Selected bibliography

Notes and References

  1. (April 1, 1995). Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature. Merriam-Webster. . Page 528.
  2. Seymour-Smith, Martin (1973). Funk & Wagnalls Guide to Modern World Literature. Funk & Wagnalls. . Page 1025.
  3. Web site: Olle Hedberg. https://archive.today/20130418072942/http://www.bonnierforlagen.se/Forlag/Forfattare/?personId=31363. dead. 2013-04-18. Bonnierförlagen. 2013-01-16.