(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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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. The award comes with a prize of $608,000.

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 är idag känd som en av våra mest älskade, hyllade och folkkära personer genom alla tider. När Janne Schaffer ser tillbaka på ett tillfälle då Bo Strömstedt ...

Astrid Lindgren och Inger Nilsson – som Pippi Långstrump – under filmatiseringen i Visby 1968-Foto: Weine Lexius/TT På Bokens dag i Klagstorp hösten 1970 höll Astrid Lindgren ett tal om ...

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 ...