Carl Olof (Olle) Hedberg (May 31, 1899, Norrköping – September 20, 1974, Verveln, Östergötland) was a Swedish author. (help· info) is a historical Province (landskap) in the south of Sweden. ...
Hedberg is best 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. The Swedish Academy was founded in 1786 on the personal initiative of King Gustav III The Swedish Academy in Stockholm The Swedish Academy or Svenska Akademien, founded in 1786 by King Gustav III, is one of the Royal Academies of Sweden. ...
Novels translated into English
Prisoner's base, 1932 (Rymmare och fasttagare 1930)
Animals in cages, 1962 (Djur i bur, 1959)
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^ (April 1, 1995). Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature. Merriam-Webster. ISBN 0-87779-042-6. Page 528.
^ Seymour-Smith, Martin (1973). Funk & Wagnalls Guide to Modern World Literature. Funk & Wagnalls. ISBN 0-308-10079-4. Page 1025.
Precise stratigraphic positions for the boundaries of the various Tertiary series were not specified by early workers in the 19th century.
It is only in more recent times that the international geologic community, working mainly through the International Geological Congress and under the inspiration and leadership of Hollis D. Hedberg, has formulated a philosophical...
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