Daniel Berg
1887–1937
Biography
Henrik Daniel Berg, who wrote under the name Daniel Berg, was a Swedish journalist, novelist and translator. He was born in 1887 in Naverstad parish, in what was then the county of Göteborg and Bohus, and he died in Gothenburg in 1937.
He wrote for newspapers in Gothenburg and Stockholm, and for a time he was London correspondent for Göteborgsposten. He produced many popular novels, several of them crime stories and adventures, many set in London, and he translated English books into Swedish, including works by Dorothy L. Sayers and Will James. In 1911 he founded a scouting group, Sörmlandspojkarna, for the Eskilstuna and Torshälla area.
The book on this site is Moloks leende (1922), published in Stockholm by Norstedt. The title refers to Moloch, the old god of sacrifice. It follows a young man from a modest background who is drawn into the circles of Stockholm's rich and well connected, where money, ambition and family pride shape every friendship and love, and the story moves through dinners, business dealings and disappointments.
Do not confuse him with Daniel Berg (1884–1963), the Swedish Pentecostal missionary who went to Brazil with Gunnar Vingren and helped found what became the Assemblies of God there. The two are different people.
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Books
Moloks leende: roman
by Daniel Berg
A young man from a modest background is drawn into the circles of Stockholm's rich and well-connected, where money, ambition and family pride set the terms of every friendship and love. Daniel Berg's novel, whose title names the old god of sacrifice, follows him through…
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