De folkkära barnböckerna av Astrid Lindgren lånas ut alltmer sällan på biblioteken, och det är sällan författarens böcker ...

Utlåningsstatistiken för Astrid Lindgrens barnböcker dalar, skriver SvD som i en kulturtext utforskar hur nationalklenodens författarskap står sig i dag. Totalt har utlånen av hennes kapitelböcker mer ...

He suggested that Lindgren must have got her sums wrong to arrive at the figure of 102%. Undaunted, the writer retorted: “Gunnar Sträng seems to have learned to tell stories, but he sure can ...

Astrid Lindgren avled i januari 2002 men hennes sagor lever vidare. Hennes populära barnböcker Pippi Långstrump, Emil, Alla vi barn i Bullerbyn, Madicken m.fl. har översatts till 85 olika språk och ...

Lindgren was born Astrid Ericsson on Nov. 14, 1907, the daughter of a farmer in Smaaland, a hilly wooded province in southern Sweden. Unwed and pregnant at age 19, she left her shocked community ...

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 ...

Children’s writer Astrid Lindgren, creator of magical, irrepressible — and much-filmed — delinquent Pippi Longstocking, died Monday Jan. 28 in her sleep in her longtime Stockholm apartment ...

Belgian illustrator and author Kitty Crowther won the 2010 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award for children's literature Wednesday for her ability to express deep humanism in all her work.

From 1941 until her death in 2002, Astrid Lindgren lived in Dalagatan 46 in central Stockholm. The house is now open to the public, preserved exactly as she left it.