Das Wunderliche, das Grausame, die Trauer und die Wut: In Hamburg haben junge Illustratoren die schwedischen Kinderbuchklassiker neu bebildert. Die Zeichnungen zeigen Lotta, Michel und die anderen ...

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 ...

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 ...

Paddington duo Studiocanal and David Heyman are teaming with the Astrid Lindgren Company to develop a movie based on the classic Pippi Longstocking story. Jeffrey Clifford and Rosie Alison will ...

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 ...

The early adult life of Astrid Lindgren, the spiritual mother of such timeless children’s heroes as Pippi Longstocking and Karlsson-on-the-Roof, is explored in Becoming Astrid (Unga Astrid ...

Lindgren was the creator of Pippi Longstocking, but she was also the author of other books and plays. And she wrote for radio and television as well. She was 94 years old.