Birger Sjöberg

Birger Sjöberg was born in Vänersborg on 6 December 1885, the son of shopkeepers. He worked in his parents' shop and for a photographer, then in a hardware shop from 1903 to 1906, before writing for the Stockholms Dagblad. In 1907 he followed to Helsingborg the new owner of the Helsingborgs-Posten, of which he was managing editor from 1909 to the end of 1924. In 1923, two triumphant tours had him sing his songs to the guitar throughout the country. Remaining unmarried, he then withdrew to Ramlösa and died of pneumonia in Växjö, during a tour, on 30 April 1929, at the age of forty-three.

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• PoetryKriser och kransarBirger Sjöberg · 1926not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain