Im November würde Astrid Lindgren hundert Jahre alt werden, doch ob sich die Ideen, die in der kleinen Hamburger Ausstellung zu besichtigen sind, in eventuellen Neuauflagen ihrer Bücher ...

The early adult life of Astrid Lindgren, the spiritual mother of such timeless children’s heroes as Pippi Longstocking and Karlsson-on-the-Roof, is explored in Becoming Astrid (Unga Astrid ...

It wasn't until Lindgren was bedridden with a badly twisted ankle that she decided to put the stories on paper and give them to her daughter. She sent the manuscript to a publisher, who turned it ...

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 ...

Sweden’s kid-lit queen Astrid Lindgren, who died in 2002, didn’t create self-possessed nine-year-old supergirl Pippi Longstocking simply because a child lifting horses and outsmarting adults ...

Flemish author Bart Moeyaert is the winner of the 2019 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the world’s largest children’s book award, with the laureate receiving five million Swedish kronor (more ...

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 ...

Astrid Lindgren ’s “Ronja the Robber’s Daughter” has been picked up by Netflix in the Nordics and other key territories. The Swedish-language show — based on the bestselling book by ...

'The Bridge' creator Hans Rosenfeldt is set to adapt Astrid Lindgren’s bestselling book 'Ronja the Robber’s Daughter' for NENT Group.