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 ...

The Stockholm apartment that was home Sweden's most famous children's author Astrid Lindgren is set to be turned into a tourist attraction, her family has announced. The creator of Pippi Longstocking, ...

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 ...

She’s the strongest girl in the world. With her carrot-coloured pigtails, her striped mismatched socks and her freckles, she’s instantly recognisable. She’s a financially independent child, a reckless ...

Stockholm is a vibrant city, sprinkled across 14 islands which feature many historical and cultural sites, and an endless selection of bustling restaurants and bars. One of Sweden’s most treasured ...

A new biopic, partly based on a 2015 biography of Swedish children’s writer Astrid Lindgren, being screened at the ongoing Berlin film festival, looks at the grief and heartache that led Lindgren to ...

In the winter of 1941, in an apartment in Stockholm, a little girl called Karin Lindgren came down with pneumonia. As she lay in bed, her mother Astrid alleviated her boredom by telling her stories ...

The nominees are the celebrated writer Jamshid Khanian, book reading promoter Abdolhakim Bahar and illustrator Farshid Shafiei. Khanian was nominated for his influential role in the formation of ...

“Tell me a story,” begged 7-year-old Karin, who was bedridden with pneumonia. “Tell me about Pippi Longstocking.” Her mother creatively complied, and a few years later when she was bedridden with her ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In 2013, 17 leather-bound diaries were found in a wicker basket in the Stockholm home of Astrid Lindgren (1907-2002), ...

Sweden’s Astrid Lindgren Award is one of the highest awards for books for young people. It was awarded to the French fairytale master, Jean-Claude Mourlevat. One of the most prestigious prizes for ...