(Music Box Films) 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 ...

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 ...

“Tell me a story,” begged 7-year-old Karin, who was bedridden with pneumonia. “Tell me about Pippi Longstocking.” Her mother creatively complied, and a few years later when she was ...

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.

'Becoming Astrid,' the latest film from Danish director Pernille Fischer Christensen ('A Soap'), casts Alba August as the young Astrid Lindgren. By Boyd van Hoeij The early adult life of Astrid ...

The former home of children's book writer Astrid Lindgren, known internationally for the Pippi Longstocking series, is being opened to the public — except for children. Starting Saturday ...

Before she was Astrid Lindgren, the creator of the indelible Pippi Longstocking (or Pippi Långstrump in her native Sweden), she was Astrid Ericsson, a young girl growing up in a small village in ...

In the winter of 1941, in an apartment in Stockholm, a little girl called Karin Lindgren came down with pneumonia. As she lay in bed, her mother Astrid alleviated her boredom by telling her ...

A Berlinale regular, from her 2006 breakthrough prize-winning debut "A Soap" to the Astrid Lindgren biopic "Becoming Astrid" (2018), picked up by Music Box for the U.S., Christensen's "Unraveled ...

Popular Swedish author Astrid Lindgren, creator of the freckle-faced, free-spirited Pippi Longstocking, died on Monday at the age of 94. Reaching into her childhood memories of the Swedish ...