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.

In 1944, Astrid Lindgren presented Karin with a special 10th birthday gift: a typed and bound version of the adventures of Pippi Longstocking. A year after that, Astrid, ...

Music Box Films has acquired U.S. rights to Pernille Fischer Christensen’s “Becoming Astrid” from TrustNordisk.. The film, which had its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival ...

Music Box Films has acquired U.S. rights to Pernille Fischer Christensen’s “Becoming Astrid” from TrustNordisk. The film, which had its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival, chronicles ...

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 ...

Australian author Sonya Hartnett is the winner of the 2008 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award for her body of work that ... CBC P.O. Box 500 Station A Toronto, ON Canada, M5W 1E6. Toll-free (Canada ...