Lindgren has so far sold roughly 167 million books worldwide. In January 2017, she was calculated to be the world's 18th most translated author, and the fourth most translated children's writer after Enid Blyton, Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm. Lindgren worked on the Children's Literature Editorial Board at the Rabén & Sjögren publishing house in Stockholm and wrote more than 30 books for children. She is best known for several children's book series, featuring Pippi Longstocking, Emil of Lönneberga, Karlsson-on-the-Roof, and the Six Bullerby Children ( Children of Noisy Village in the US), and for the children's fantasy novels Mio, My Son, Ronia the Robber's Daughter, and The Brothers Lionheart.
Hans Christian Andersen Award for WritingĪstrid Anna Emilia Lindgren ( Swedish: ( listen) née Ericsson 14 November 1907 – 28 January 2002) was a Swedish writer of fiction and screenplays. So, thank you Karin for sparking the bedtime story that inspired a novel that has since been translated into more than 90 languages – and into movies, animated TV series, Halloween costumes and more.Children's fiction, picture books, screenplays She started to tell me a completely new story.” One evening she said, exhausted: ‘But what more can I tell you?’ An answer came bursting forth, in an attempt to keep her by me: ‘Tell me about Pippi Longstocking!’ It was a name out of the blue, only a child’s play on words.
I was bored, and kept begging my mother to tell me stories. In a 2016 interview with The Guardian, Lindgren’s daughter, Karin Nyman, fondly recalled the moment Pippi Longstocking was born: “I was ill in bed for a long period in 1941, my first school year.
The novel shares the adventures of a brazen, orphaned redhead named Pippi Longstocking. “Pippi Longstocking” (Pippi Långstrump) is the world-renowned Swedish children’s novel by writer Astrid Lindgren, published by Rabén & Sjögren in 1945. She’s Pippi Longstocking or Pippilotta Delicatessa Windowshade Mackrelmint Ephraim’s Daughter Longstocking if you want to get technical. And is the brainchild of Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren… and her daughter. Is a bit of a boss (in the best way possible). Terrible at cleaning (but maybe amazing).
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