Author. Bertil Malmberg was an award-winning prolific Swedish author, who penned novels, poems, journalistic articles for newspapers, fiction, screen and stage plays. Born Bertil Frans Harald Malmberg, the son of a senior college lecturer, he studied in Sweden at Lund and Uppsala Universities, along with traveling to Germany to study in Berlin. In 1907, he published his debut collection of poems, "Brander," which followed with "Settlement and Promise" in 1911 and "Deed and Dream" in 1912. These followed with "Atlantis" in 1916 and the "A Bleeding Soil" in 1917 He had published five collections by the time he was thirty, and as he aged, he turned to write in free verse. In 1935 he received the Swedish Academy's Grand Prize for the collection of poems, "Poems at the Border." He was the recipient of the 1956 Dobloug Prize, a literary award given for outstanding Swedish and Norwegian fiction. In error, a few sources claimed that he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. He did nominate two other authors for the Nobel candidacy. From 1953, he was a member the Swedish Academy, which nominated the Nobel Prize in Literature. In 1940 Marguerite Wenner-Gren translated into English his 1924 book "Ake and his World," which is now a collector's item. The novel is said to be autobiographical about his safe childhood and becoming an adult. Posthumously, the novel was adapted for television in 1959 and to a film in 1984. The 1984 film received the Golden Spike Award at the Valladolid International Film Festival from Spain, the Lucas Award at the Lucas International Festival of Films for Children and Young People from Germany and was nominated for the Golden Prize at the Moscow International Film Festival. He is credited with writing ten screenplays for the film industry. He lived in Munich from 1917 to 1927 and saw Adolph Hitler come to power. After returning to Nazi Germany in the late 1930s, he authored one of the first reports about concentration camps in Swedish newspapers, including the "Jewish Journal." In 1942, his anti-Nazi stage play "Excellency" was very successful and became a film in 1944, despite objections from the Swedish authorities. In March of 2000, a cemetery visitor by chance saw the sign near his grave stating since no one alive to care for this grave, the grave was at risked for being erased and reused by someone else. The Swedish Academy was notified and arrangements were made, which saved Bertil Malmberg's grave for posterity. The Swedish Academy has published in 2006 a short biography in honor of him, "A Poet in His Time." He married four times and his fourth wife was buried with him in 1990.