Astrid Lindgren, Author, Marit Trnqvist, Illustrator Arthur A. Levine Books $16.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-439-62796-2 Marit Tarnqvist reimagines Astrid Lindgren's wistful tale of two children ""left alone ...

A hundred years ago, on 14 November 1907, Astrid Lindgren was born on a small farm in south-central Sweden. When she died at age 95, she had long achieved worldwide renown as the author of books for ...

Pippi Longstocking turns 70 this May (though she doesn’t look a day over 10!) but fans of her creator will be getting the gift: reissues of two out-of-print classics by Astrid Lindgren. The New York ...

The film from director Wilfried Hauke tells the story of Lindgren's "young years during World War II through her own diaries in a beautiful and intelligent film about life, death and art in the shadow ...

Astrid Lindgren, 94, the Swedish author of more than 100 novels, short stories, song collections, poetry volumes and screenplays who is best known as the creator of the red-braided, wildly and ...

One of Astrid Lindgren's most popular books is heading to the small screen on Apple TV. In the current age of fantasy novels being brought to life, a massively famous one from Sweden is about to get ...

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 ...

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 at age 94.

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 countryside ...

Wilfried Hauke's documentary shines a spotlight on the early years of the Swedish creator of Pippi Longstocking and Ronia the Robber's Daughter. By Georg Szalai Global Business Editor The film from ...