Popular Swedish author Astrid Lindgren, creator of the freckle-faced, free-spirited Pippi Longstocking, died on Monday at the age of 94. Reaching into her childhood memories of the Swedish ...

Lindgren, then Astrid Ericsson, began her writing career ... remembering Lasse’s distress at the many upheavals of his early childhood. “It isn’t easy for them to adapt, although it can ...

Astrid Lindgren was never a cosmopolitan; she remained forever the spunky girl from the stony farm area of Småland. In her memoir of childhood, Samuel August from Sevedsthorpe and Hanna from Hult ...

Virginia Lee Burton was born just a couple of years after Astrid Lindgren, yet her childhood couldn’t have been more different. Raised in a Californian artists' colony, she went on to found her ...

(Music Box Films) The Swedish author Astrid Lindgren (1907-2002) is beloved around the world for her best-selling children’s books (most notably “Pippi Longstocking”), but “Becoming Astrid ...

“It stands as a milestone from my childhood, shining vividly in my ... “We are honored to be partnering with Thomas Vinterberg, The Astrid Lindgren Company and Simon Stephens to bring this ...

The books come in celebration of late author Astrid Lindgren’s 80th birthday Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, where she writes for both print and digital platforms.

Thomas Vinterberg is ready for “The Brothers Lionheart,” based on Astrid Lindgren’s fantasy novel. “I’m writing it myself with the brilliant British writer Simon Stephens, so it’s a ...