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.

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

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.

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 ...