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Hjalmar Bergman

Date of Birth 19-September-1883
Place of Birth Örebro
(Örebro Municipality, Örebro County, Närke, Sweden)
Nationality Sweden
Also know as Hjalmar Fredrik Elgérus Bergman, Hjalmar Fredrik Elgérus Bergman
Profession Writer, Novelist
Hjalmar Fredrik Elgérus Bergman was a Swedish writer and playwright. The son of a banker in Örebro, Bergman briefly studied philosophy at Uppsala University but soon broke off his studies and took up the life of a free writer. He married Stina Lindberg, the daughter of actor and stage producer August Lindberg. Up to his father's death in 1915 Bergman was heavily sponsored by the family patriarch; after the old man died from a stroke it turned out that the family business had become highly indebted and Bergman was forced to start making money out of his writing and court readers in a more outgoing and more entertaining manner. He rose to the challenge and in the following ten years reached the peak of his work. Much of his output takes place in a small town in mid-Sweden, which is growing into a parallel universe in a Balzacian manner. The shameful secrets of a dozen of interwoven families gradually come out of the closet as the stories grow increasingly symbolic. A pessimistic outlook is always counterbalanced by a grotesque humour - indeed in a book like Markurells i Wadköping the latter almost succeeds in completely shading the former.

Awards by Hjalmar Bergman

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