The books marked the centennary of the Swedish emigration to North America, and have become a canonic piece of Swedish literature. They have been adapted as a 1970s series starring Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann, and the 1995 stage musical Kristina från Duvemåla.
Destinations
[edit]- Duvemåla, Emmaboda, Småland
- Karlshamn, Blekinge, where the Nilsson family boarded the brig Charlotta to America.
- Battery Park, New York City
- Chisago County, Minnesota
- 1 Lindstrom, Minnesota: Karl Oskar Days (Lindström, MN). Lindstrom is known as "America's Little Sweden", northeast on 35E from Minneapolis. The Karl Oskar Days are a celebration of Swedish writer Vilhelm Moberg's Emigrants series, about Swedish settlers in Minnesota.
Related destinations
[edit]- 1 House of Emigrants (Utvandrarnas Museum), Vilhelm Mobergs gata 4 (Växjö). A museum concerning the great emigration from Sweden in general and from Småland in particular in the 19th century.
