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 ...

Paddington duo Studiocanal and David Heyman are teaming with the Astrid Lindgren Company to develop a movie based on the classic Pippi Longstocking story. Jeffrey Clifford and Rosie Alison will also ...

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 ...

Jacqueline Woodson, who won a National Book Award for her memoir in verse “Brown Girl Dreaming,” won the 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award on Tuesday. The award comes with a prize of $608,000.

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 ...

Belgian illustrator and author Kitty Crowther won the 2010 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award for children’s literature Wednesday for her ability to express deep humanism in all her work. Crowther, 39, ...

It’s tempting to believe the great writers of children’s literature are ageless souls forever in playtime mode, the world’s harsher realities kept at bay by a boundless imagination that’s the ultimate ...