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 ...

Monday, January 28th 2002, 12:00 am By: News On 6 STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) _ Popular children's writer Astrid Lindgren, creator of the braided, freethinking Pippi Longstocking, died Monday. She was 94.

You probably know her better as Pippi Longstocking. And this year, on 21 May 2020, the most famous creation of Swedish author Astrid Lindgren will celebrate her 75th birthday.

The reading from Pippi in the South Seas, is by Suzette Williams. The reading and interview with Astrid Lindgren were first broadcast on The Science Show in April 1991.

Yvonne Draheim, LL.M., Dr. Patrick Fromlowitz, LL.M. In 1969, the defendant lyricist of the song "Hey, Pippi Langstrumpf" was asked to write the lyrics of the theme song for the German-Swedish ...

Astrid Lindgren introduced the world to Pippi Longstocking, who would become her most famous creation, in 1945. (Pressens Bild/AFP/Getty Images) ...

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 ...