“Becoming Astrid” reveals August as a breakout ... underscoring the connection between the facts depicted on-screen and Lindgren’s inspirational fiction. At times, this linkage feels overly ...

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 ...

A hundred years ago, on 14 November 1907, Astrid Lindgren was born on a small farm in south-central Sweden. When she died at age 95, she had long achieved worldwide renown as the author of books ...

Independent studio Media Res (The Morning Show) has enlisted Oscar-winning filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg (Another Round) to spearhead a TV adaptation of the Astrid Lindgren’s beloved children’s ...

Before she was Astrid Lindgren, the creator of the indelible Pippi Longstocking (or Pippi Långstrump in her native Sweden), she was Astrid Ericsson, a young girl growing up in a small village in ...

The former home of children's book writer Astrid Lindgren, known internationally for the Pippi Longstocking series, is being opened to the public — except for children. Starting Saturday ...

Stockholm is a vibrant city, sprinkled across 14 islands which feature many historical and cultural sites, and an endless selection of bustling restaurants and bars. One of Sweden’s most ...

In the winter of 1941, in an apartment in Stockholm, a little girl called Karin Lindgren came down with pneumonia. As she lay in bed, her mother Astrid alleviated her boredom by telling her ...

Astrid Lindgren, 94, the Swedish author of more than 100 novels, short stories, song collections, poetry volumes and screenplays who is best known as the creator of the red-braided, wildly and ...