Jonas Hassen Khemiri, whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker and other outlets, is the author of six ...

LOS ANGELES, CA, UNITED STATES, June 17, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Swedish actress Nathalie Söderqvist is set to make a striking impression at the upcoming Dances With Films Festival with her ...

Writer-director Benedikt Erlingsson discusses making Icelandic series Danska Konan (The Danish Woman), partnering with ...

The meeting took place on June 4 at the Royal Palace. The children, aged 9 to 17, are now in Sweden on a respite visit. The initiative came from the Astrid Lindgren Children’s Hospital at the ...

A key part of honoring and extending that legacy is the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, which was founded by the Swedish government in 2002, the year of Lindgren’s death, with the mission “to ...

Ilon Wikland’s illustration for Astrid Lindgren’s “The Bullerby Children”. Revisiting the childhood home and opening namesake centre in Haapsalu Wikland only got to return to her childhood hometown, ...

Astrid Lindgren's children character Pippi Longstocking is in truth an unusual young girl. She is financially independent since she owns a sackful of gold pieces. She can shoot a revolver and sail on ...

Speaking out against book bans, Asa Bergman, head of office at the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, expressed strong opposition to banning books at school libraries, emphasizing that “access to ...

Korean authors Ko Jung-wook and Yoo Eun-sil, along with illustrator Lee Suzy, have been nominated for next year's Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, a prestigious global children's literary award.

1. Schooling. Ever since 1842, children in Sweden have had the right to go to school, by law. Today there are ten years of compulsory schooling, divided into four stages: förskoleklass (‘pre-school ...

On the first Wednesday of September, Australia comes together to celebrate Indigenous Literacy Day, a vibrant annual event dedicated to honouring the stories, cultures, and languages of Aboriginal ...