author
Henning Berger
1872–1924
Best known for vivid stories of city life and emigration, this Swedish writer drew on his own years in the United States to portray opportunity, hardship, and restless modern life. He also wrote detective fiction and ghost stories, giving his work an unusual range.
2 Audiobooks
Ysaïl: En berättelse från Chicago
by Henning Berger
Väriä ja viivoja: Werner von Heidenstamin, Oscar Levertinin y.m. novelleja
by Verner von Heidenstam, Victoria Benedictsson, Henning Berger, August Blanche, Karl-Erik Forsslund, Knut Hamsun, Oscar Levertin, Pelle Molin, Hjalmar Söderberg, August Strindberg
About the author
Born in Stockholm on April 22, 1872, Johan Henning Berger was a Swedish author and critic. Reliable reference sources identify him as especially known for his critical depictions of emigrant life in the United States, where workers were often exploited as cheap labor.
Berger spent part of his early life in the U.S., including years in Chicago, and that experience shaped much of his writing. After returning to Sweden, he built a literary career that moved across several forms, from urban fiction to shorter tales with detective and supernatural elements.
He died in Copenhagen on March 30, 1924. Today he is remembered as a distinctive early twentieth-century Swedish voice whose fiction combined social observation with dramatic storytelling.