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Date of Birth
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31-May-1899
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Place of Birth
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Norrköping
(Norrköping Municipality, Sweden, Östergötland County, Östergötland)
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Nationality
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Sweden
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Also know as
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Karl Olof Hedberg, Hedberg, Carl Olof Olle Hedberg, Carl Olof Hedberg
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Profession
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Writer, Screenwriter
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Carl Olof Hedberg was a Swedish author.
Hedberg is best known as a probing satirist of the middle class and conventional world in general. His first novel, Rymmare och fasttagare, 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. Bekänna färg, 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. 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.
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