The Stockholm apartment that was home Sweden's most famous children's author Astrid Lindgren is set to be turned into a tourist attraction, her family has announced. The creator of Pippi Longstocking, ...

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 Lindgren, 94, the Swedish author of more than 100 novels, ... Mrs. Lindgren was born Astrid Ericsson into a large farm family in the Swedish province of Smaaland.

"Astrid maintained her personality until the end," her friend, Margareta Stroemstedt, told the newspaper Expressen, adding that Lindgren spent her final days surrounded by family members. Lindgren ...

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 ...

Sutton Foster will narrate a new series of Pippi Longstocking audiobooks. The three titles will be published by Listening Library this spring, in honor of late author Astrid Lindgren’s 80th ...

Independent studio Media Res (The Morning Show) has enlisted Oscar-winning filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg (Another Round) to spearhead a TV adaptation of the Astrid Lindgren’s beloved children’s ...

Speaking out against book bans, Asa Bergman, head of office at the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, expressed strong opposition to banning books at school libraries, emphasizing that “access to ...

The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) has won a major international award for children's and young adult literature, worth $725,000. The Australian not-for-profit won the annual Astrid Lindgren ...