Lindgren was born Astrid Ericsson on Nov. 14, 1907, the daughter of a farmer in Smaaland, a hilly wooded province in southern Sweden. Unwed and pregnant at age 19, she left her shocked community ...

Henrik Rafaelsen and Alba August, as lovers who can’t be together. “Becoming Astrid” reveals August as a breakout actress. (Music Box Films) The Swedish author Astrid Lindgren (1907-2002) is ...

Children’s writer Astrid Lindgren, creator of magical, irrepressible — and much-filmed — delinquent Pippi Longstocking, died Monday Jan. 28 in her sleep in her longtime Stockholm apartment ...

Astrid Ericsson Lindgren, the self-described “mother” of freckled Pippi Longstocking whose prodigious writing includes some 115 books, a dozen plays, two dozen screenplays, plus songs and ...

Astrid Lindgren Obit Liane Hansen talks with Eden Ross Lipson, editor of The New York Times Parents Guide to the Best Books for Children, about the death of Astrid Lindgren.