That same year, the Astrid Lindgren’s Children’s Hospital opened, one of the largest such hospitals in northern Europe. Lindgren was widowed in 1952, and her only son, Lars, died in 1986.

From 1941 until her death in 2002, Astrid Lindgren lived in Dalagatan 46 in central Stockholm. The house is now open to the public, preserved exactly as she left it.

Film Review: ‘Becoming Astrid’ A gorgeous piece of heritage filmmaking that chronicles a character-forming period in the young life of the Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren.

Sweden’s kid-lit queen Astrid Lindgren, who died in 2002, didn’t create self-possessed nine-year-old supergirl Pippi Longstocking simply because a child lifting horses and outsmarting adults ...

En magisk jul med Astrid Lindgrens figurer. SVT storsatsar på mys och bus i stugorna. – Vi vill skapa en fin julaftonstradition för alla generationer, säger Hanna Stjärne, vd på SVT.

Flemish author Bart Moeyaert is the winner of the 2019 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the world’s largest children’s book award, with the laureate receiving five million Swedish kronor (more ...

The Swedish children's author Astrid Lindgren, creator of the free-spirited Pippi Longstocking, has died at the age of 94. Lindgren died at home after a brief illness, her daughter Karin Nyman told a ...