Barbro Lindgren is best known in Sweden for her 1969 work Loranga, Masarin and Dartanjang, an absurd story set in a world where anything can happen, and her Wild Baby series about an anarchic toddler.

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.

STOCKHOLM -- Banco del Libro, a nonprofit Venezuelan network that has distributed books to children for nearly half a century, is the 2007 winner of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award for Literature.

The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award is an international children's literary award established by the Swedish government in 2002 to honor the Swedish children's author Astrid Lindgren (1907–2002).

Australian author/illustrator Shaun Tan has won the 2011 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Prize, the largest award for children’s and young adult literature with a prize of five million Swedish krona ...

Swedish picture book artist Eva Lindström has won the year’s Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. The global award, worth five million Swedish krona (£400,000), is given annually to a person or ...