Editing Vilhelm Moberg (section)

==Early life==
Karl Artur Vilhelm Moberg was born in 1898 on a farm outside the town [[Emmaboda]] in the Parish of [[Algutsboda, Sweden|Algutsboda]] in [[Småland]], in southern Sweden. He was the fourth child of six, of whom only three survived into adulthood. His forebears were soldiers and small farmers. He lived the first nine years of his life at the tenement soldier's cottage in Moshultamåla that his father Karl Moberg, a territorial soldier, took over in 1888. 

In 1907 the family moved to a small farm in the village of Moshultamåla. This had been the family home of his mother Ida Moberg; they had lost it due to poverty. Money from her family in America enabled them to buy the property back.  Moberg had only limited schooling from 1906 until 1912.  However, as a child he was an avid reader; he published his first writing at the age of 13.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vilhelmmoberg.com/english.html |title=Vilhelm Moberg – The Greatest Swedish Author |author=A.A |work=vilhelmmoberg.com |url-status=usurped |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071207064136/http://www.vilhelmmoberg.com/english.html |archivedate=December 7, 2007 }}</ref>

Moberg worked as a farmer and forest laborer, and later at [[glassblowing]] before and between his various studies.  In 1916 he nearly emigrated to the United States, following his uncle and aunt, but ultimately decided to remain in Sweden with his parents. Largely self‑educated, Moberg studied at [[Kronoberg]] County Folk High School in [[Grimslöv]] from 1916 to 1917, and at Katrineholms Praktiska Skola, a private school in [[Katrineholm]], from 1917 to 1918.  Moberg contracted the [[Spanish flu]] in 1918, and was sick for half a year. After his illness, Moberg took a position on the newspaper ''Vadstena Läns Tidning'' in [[Östergötland]], which published many of his stories between 1919 and 1929.

In 1926, Moberg made his breakthrough as a playwright when his comedy ''Kassabrist'' had a successful run in Stockholm. He published his first novel ''Raskens'' the following year. Moberg became a full‑time writer when the financial success of ''Raskens'' enabled him to devote himself entirely to writing.