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 ...

Before she became famous for creating Pippi Longstocking, Astrid Lindgren was a teenage prodigy in 1920s Sweden. The 2018 biopic "Becoming Astrid" looks at a transformative time in her early years.

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 ...

ASTRID LINDGREN, the Swedish author who created the Pippi Longstocking stories, has died at the age of 94. Lindgren died at her home in Stockholm following a viral infection, her daughter Karin ...

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 ...

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 ...

This year marks the 75th anniversary of Pippi Longstocking, the most popular character of Swedish author and activist Astrid Lindgren. Harriet Marsden speaks to Lindgren’s family, fans – and ...

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 ...

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.