Moberg - Carl Artur Vilhelm Moberg

Japanese: ムーベリ - むーべり(英語表記)Carl Artur Vilhelm Moberg
Moberg - Carl Artur Vilhelm Moberg

Swedish author. Born the son of a garrison soldier. Without a significant academic background, he worked as a newspaper reporter before gaining recognition in the literary world with his debut work, The Ruskens: A Story of a Soldier Family (1927), and began his career as a writer. He is known for the four-part series, which depicts the immigration of a poor farming family to America: Emigrants Abroad (1949), The Settlers (1952), The New Frontiersmen (1956), and A Last Letter to Sweden (1959). This masterpiece gained many readers and was made into a film. During World War II, he satirized the Nazis in The Night Horse (1941) and criticized his country's neutrality policy in The Soldier with the Broken Gun (1944). A prolific national author.

[Michio Tanaka]

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Japanese:

スウェーデンの作家。屯田兵の子として生まれる。さしたる学歴もなく新聞記者を経て、処女作『ラスケン家の人々――ある兵士一家の物語』(1927)で文壇に認められ、作家活動に入る。貧しい農民一家のアメリカ移住を描く四部作『海外移民』(1949)、『入植民』(1952)、『新開拓者』(1956)、『スウェーデンへの最後の手紙』(1959)の作者として知られる。この大作は多くの読者を得、映画化された。第二次世界大戦中は『夜の早馬』(1941)でナチスを風刺し、『折れた銃を持つ兵士』(1944)で自国の中立政策を批判した。多作の国民的作家。

[田中三千夫]

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