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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pippi Longstocking was anything but ordinary. The red-haired heroine of Swedish children’s literature took on the world with superhuman strength and unbridled imagination, with no parents to tell her ...

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.

Here's another project to throw in the "I wish this would have been made" file we all keep in our heads. Back in 1971, legendary animators Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata began production on an ...

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 ...