Olle Hedberg

Who was Olle Hedberg?

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.