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.

Astrid Lindgren spent many summers on the island of Furusund, ... Her acceptance speech was titled "Never Violence," and she had sent the speech to Frankfurt in advance of the event.

Astrid Lindgren finished her story recounting how the pastor’s wife reacted when her boy returned with the rock meant to be thrown at him. ... Never use violence.

In 2013, 17 leather-bound diaries were found in a wicker basket in the Stockholm home of Astrid Lindgren (1907-2002), author of the children’s classic Pippi Longstocking.Written between 1939 and ...

GOTHENBURG — It takes 13 hours from Berlin to get to Bullerbyn, the fictional Swedish town described by Astrid Lindgren in her 1947 children's classic. Or to be more precise, to get to ...

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 ...

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” doesn’t ...

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.

Thomas Vinterberg, behind Oscar-winning ‘Another Round,’ talks adapting 'The Brothers Lionheart,' contemplates return to U.S.

American author Laurie Halse Anderson is the winner of the 2023 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the world’s largest children’s book prize.