Bertil Frans Harald Malmberg (13 August 1889 - 11 February 1958) was a Swedish writer, poet, and actor. He was born in

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to Teodor Malmberg and Hanna Roman. Malmberg is the 1956 winner of the

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, a literature prize awarded for Swedish and Norwegian fiction. He has published five books of poetry and has translated a volume of Schiller. From 1917 to 1928, he lived in

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. In 1936, he published one of the first accounts in Swedish of a concentration camp. He died in

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Works

*1908 - '' Bränder'' *1916 - ''Atlantis'' *1923 - '' Orfika'' *1924 - '' Ake and His World'' *1927 - '' Slöjan'' *1929 - '' Vinden'' *1932 - '' Illusionernas värld'' *1936 - '' Tyska intryck'' *1937 - '' Värderingar'' *1942 - '' Excellensen'', dt.: '' Die Exzellenz'' *1947 - '' Under månens fallande båge'' *1948 - '' Men bortom marterpålarna'' *1949 - '' Utan resolution'' *1949 - '' Staden i regnet'' *1950 - '' Med cyklopöga'' *1951 - '' Idealet och livet'' *1956 - '' Förklädda memoarer''

References

1889 births 1958 deaths Swedish male actors Dobloug Prize winners Swedish poets Swedish male poets 20th-century Swedish poets Members of the Swedish Academy People from Härnösand 20th-century Swedish male writers {{Sweden-writer-stub