Astrid Lindgren
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Born | Astrid Anna Emilia Ericsson 14 November 1907 Vimmerby, Sweden |
Died | 28 January 2002 Stockholm, Sweden | (aged 94)
Resting place | Vimmerby, Sweden |
Occupation | Writer |
Period | 1907-2002 |
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Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren (Swedish:
Biography
Astrid Lindgren was born on 14 November 1907. She grew up in Näs, near
Upon finishing school, Lindgren took a job with the local newspaper, Vimmerby Tidning, in Vimmerby.[1] She had a relationship with the chief editor and became pregnant, causing a local scandal.[1] She moved to the capital city of Stockholm and learnt the skills of a secretary.[1] There she gave birth to her only son, Lars, who was fostered for four years and then returned to her.[1] He died in 1986.[3]
Starting in 1928, Lindgren worked as a secretary at Sweden's Royal Automobile Club (Kungliga Automobil Klubben).[1] In 1931, she married her boss, Sture Lindgren (1898–1952). In 1934, Lindgren gave birth to her second child, Karin.[1]
Lindgren died in her home in
Career
As the children were sitting there eating pears, a girl came walking along the road from town. When she saw the children she stopped and asked, "Have you seen my papa go by?"
"M-m-m," said Pippi. "How did he look? Did he have blue eyes?"
"Yes," said the girl.
"Medium large, not too tall and not too short?"
"Yes," said the girl.
"Black hat and black shoes?"
"Yes, exactly," said the girl eagerly.
"No, that one we haven't seen," said Pippi decidedly.
Astrid Lindgren, Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump, 1945)
Lindgren worked as a journalist and secretary before becoming a full-time author.[7] She served as a secretary for the 1933 Swedish Summer Grand Prix. In the early 1940s, she worked as a secretary for criminalist Harry Söderman; the Norsk biografisk leksikon cites this experience as an inspiration for her fictional detective Bill Bergson.[8]
In 1944, Lindgren won second prize in a competition held by the book publishing company
She travelled to America and wrote what became the 1950 book Kati in America as a series of short pieces for the Swedish women's magazine Damernas Värld.[1] In 1956, the inaugural year of the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis, the German-language edition of Mio, min Mio (Mio, My Son) won the Children's Book Award.[17][18][a]
In 1958, Lindgren received the second
Politics
In 1976, a scandal arose in Sweden when it was publicised that Lindgren's
In 1978, when she received the
From 1985 to 1989, Lindgren, with veterinarian Kristina Forslund, wrote articles concerning animal protection and mass production in the Swedish newspapers
Lindgren was well known both for her support for children's and animal rights and for her opposition to corporal punishment and the EU.[34] In 1994, she received the Right Livelihood Award, "For her commitment to justice, non-violence and understanding of minorities as well as her love and caring for nature."[35] She was a member of the freedom of speech-promoting, anti-imperialist organization Folket i Bild/Kulturfront.[36]
Honours and memorials
In 1967, the publisher
Following Lindgren's death, the government of Sweden instituted the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award in her memory. The award is the world's largest monetary award for children's and youth literature, in the amount of five million Swedish kronor.[43][44] The collection of Lindgren's original manuscripts in the National Library of Sweden in Stockholm was placed on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register in 2005.[45] On 6 April 2011, Sweden's central bank Sveriges Riksbank announced that Lindgren's portrait would feature on the 20 kronor banknote, beginning in 2014–2015.[46] The banknote had before that featured the Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf.[47] In 2018, Pernille Fischer Christensen directed the film Becoming Astrid (Swedish: Unga Astrid), a biographical drama about Lindgren's early life.[48]
Nobel Prize in Literature
In 1972, Lindgren was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature by German literary critic Klaus Doderer and Austrian librarian Josef Stummvoll.[49][50]
Asteroid Lindgren
Asteroid
Astrid's Wellspring
In memory of Lindgren, a memorial sculpture was created next to her childhood home, named Källa Astrid ("Astrid's Wellspring" in English). It is situated at the spot where Lindgren first heard fairy tales. The sculpture consists of an artistic representation of a young person's head (1.37 m high), flattened on top, in the corner of a square pond, and, just above the water, a ring of rosehip thorns.[53]
Lindgren's childhood home is near the statue and open to the public.[54] Just 100 metres (330 ft) from Astrid's Wellspring is a museum in her memory. The author is buried in Vimmerby,[55] where the Astrid Lindgren's World theme park is located.[56] The children's museum Junibacken, in Stockholm, was opened in June 1996 with the main theme of the permanent exhibition being devoted to Lindgren; at the heart of the museum is a theme train ride through the world of Lindgren's novels.[57]
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Källa Astrid (Astrid's Wellspring) by Berit Lindfeldt
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Lindgren Museum
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Lindgren gravesite
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Lindgren at her typewriter. Statue created by Marie-Louise Ekman, in the centre of Vimmerby
Works
Bibliography
Lindgren is best known for her children's book series featuring
Translations
By 2012, Lindgren's books had been translated into 95 different languages or variants. The first chapter of Ronja the Robber's Daughter has in addition been translated into
Filmography
The adaptation of Lindgren's books for film started with Rolf Husberg's 1947 Bill Bergson, Master Detective.[60] This was followed in 1949 by Per Gunvall's adaptation of Pippi Longstocking,[61] and then by many others.[62]
See also
- List of Swedish language writers
Notes
References
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- ISBN 978-0-7864-1464-2.
- ^ Pearson, Richard (29 January 2002). "Astrid Lindgren Dies at 94". The Washington Post.
- ^ Hagerfors, Anna-Maria (8 March 2002). "Astrids sista farväl". Dagens Nyheter.
- ^ Jensen, Jorn Rossing (24 November 2014). "The Swedish secretary and journalist who sold 144 million books worldwide". Cineuropa. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
- ^ Jørgensen, Jørn-Kr. "Harry Söderman". In Helle, Knut (ed.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
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Under våren utkom Pippi Långstrump på oriya, ett språk som talas i en del av Indien. Det innebär att språkgränsen 100 passerades.
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- ^ Berger, Andreas (4 July 2018). "Was das Schwein Augusta gegen die Herren der Gewinnerzielung sagt" [What the pig Augusta says against the lords of profit making]. Braunschweiger Zeitung (in German).
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- Regeringskansliet (in Swedish). January 2006. Archived from the originalon 2 November 2021. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
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- St. Martin's Griffin, p. 841
- St. Martin's Griffin. p. 582.
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- ^ Flood, Alison (20 March 2012). "Dutch author Guus Kuijer wins Astrid Lindgren memorial award" Archived 12 August 2022 at the Wayback Machine. The Guardian. Quote: "... the world's richest children's books prize, the Astrid Lindgren memorial award."
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Further reading
- Margareta Strömstedt (1977) Astrid Lindgren: En levnadsteckning. Stockholm: ISBN 978-9-1295-0279-4
- Paul Berf, Astrid Surmatz (2000) Astrid Lindgren. Zum Donnerdrummel! Ein Werk-Porträt. Frankfurt: Zweitausendeins ISBN 3-8077-0160-5
- Vivi Edström (1997) Astrid Lindgren. Im Land der Märchen und Abenteuer Hamburg: Oetinger ISBN 3-7891-3402-3
- Maren Gottschalk (2006) Jenseits von Bullerbü. Die Lebensgeschichte der Astrid Lindgren. Weinheim: Beltz & Gelberg ISBN 3-407-80970-0
- Jörg Knobloch (2002): Praxis Lesen: Astrid Lindgren: A4-Arbeitsvorlagen Klasse 2–6. Lichtenau: AOL-Verlag ISBN 3-89111-653-5
- Sybil Gräfin Schönfeldt (2000) Astrid Lindgren. Reinbek: Rowohlt ISBN 3-499-50371-9
- Margareta Strömstedt (2001) Astrid Lindgren. Ein Lebensbild. Hamburg: Oetinger ISBN 3-7891-4717-6
- Astrid Surmatz (2005) Pippi Långstrump als Paradigma. Die deutsche Rezeption Astrid Lindgrens und ihr internationaler Kontext. Tübingen, Basel: Francke ISBN 3-7720-3097-1
- Eva-Maria Metcalf (1995) Astrid Lindgren. New York: Twayne ISBN 978-0-8057-4525-2
- Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren at Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon
External links
- AstridLindgren.se – official site produced by license holders
- Astrid Lindgren at IMDb
- Astrid Lindgren's World – official site of the theme park
- Astrid Lindgrens Näs – official site produced by the Astrid Lindgren-museum and culture center Astrid Lindgrens Näs in Vimmerby
- Astrid Lindgren – Right Livelihood Award (1994)
- Petri Liukkonen. "Astrid Lindgren". Books and Writers.
- Astrid spacecraft description at NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive
- Astrid Lindgren at Library of Congress, with 182 library catalogue records