To Astrid Lindgren, "never violence" meant "never spanking". A year later, the Swedish government signed a law forbidding corporal punishment and psychological abuse of children.

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 ...

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” doesn’t ...

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.

Thomas Vinterberg, behind Oscar-winning ‘Another Round,’ talks adapting 'The Brothers Lionheart,' contemplates return to U.S.

This video is eerily prophetic. Melania Trump states, "Violence is never the answer and will never be justified." We can't agree more. CC BY o0Currency Future, A Message from First Lady Melania ...

Freshly released wartime diaries along with a new biography reveal Astrid Lindgren, author of some of the world's most beloved children's literature, to be as radical and determined as her best ...

Jacqueline Woodson, who won a National Book Award for her memoir in verse “Brown Girl Dreaming,” won the 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award on Tuesday.

In 2013, 17 leather-bound diaries were found in a wicker basket in the Stockholm home of Astrid Lindgren (1907-2002), author of the children’s classic Pippi Longstocking.

Astrid Lindgren, the author of Pippi Longstocking, once told a story of an old pastor’s wife she had met twenty years before. Lindgren said that the wife didn’t believe in spanking children ...