In 1944, Astrid Lindgren presented Karin with a special 10th birthday gift: a typed and bound version of the adventures of Pippi Longstocking.

Astrid Lindgren, activist, journalist, mother and one of Sweden’s most widely translated authors, is still a beguiling paradox (Jacob Forsell) S he’s the strongest girl in the world.

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.

Lindgren lost her faith but not her habit of prayer in old age and her existence was bleaker for it. In a way, she’s a metaphor for Sweden itself. Melanie McDonagh writes for the Evening Standard ...

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 ...

Henrik Rafaelsen and Alba August, as lovers who can’t be together. “Becoming Astrid” reveals August as a breakout actress. (Music Box Films) The Swedish author Astrid Lindgren (1907-2002) is ...

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.

Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren introduced the world to “Pippi Longstocking” in 1945. Rambunctious, red-pigtailed Pippi is beloved the world over, especially in Sweden — where people are ...

The Swedish children's author Astrid Lindgren, creator of the free-spirited Pippi Longstocking, has died at the age of 94. Lindgren died at home after a brief illness, her daughter Karin Nyman told a ...