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 ...

That same year, the Astrid Lindgren’s Children’s Hospital opened, one of the largest such hospitals in northern Europe. Lindgren was widowed in 1952, and her only son, Lars, died in 1986.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The best-selling author of How to Train Your Dragon, Cressida Cowell, explains her love for the Swedish author, Astrid Lindgren. Born in 1907, Lindgren invented the Pippi Longstocking stories to ...

To Astrid Lindgren, "never violence" meant "never spanking". A year later, the Swedish government signed a law forbidding corporal punishment and psychological abuse of children.

Who was the woman behind Pippi Longstocking? Freshly released wartime diaries along with a new biography reveal Astrid Lindgren, author of some of the world's most beloved children's literature ...

A drama looks at the Swedish author Astrid Lindgren and her fight to keep her out-of-wedlock child.

Media Res has tapped Thomas Vinterberg to spearhead a TV adaptation of the Astrid Lindgren's beloved children's fantasy novel The Brothers Lionheart.