![]() ![]() ![]() She also received numerous other honours and awards including the International Book Award. She received the Raben & Sjogren's Best Children's Book prize for Pippi and became a book editor for that publisher for many years. Her second book, Pippi Longstocking, which she wrote as a present for her daughter's tenth birthday, was published in 1945. Astrid wrote her first story, Britt-Mari Opens Her Heart, in 1944. One of them tried to land on the roof of her house, or that is the way it looked at the time.Īfter attending public school, she moved to Stockholm and married Sture Lindgren. One of her strongest recollections as a child was meeting two pilots, Captains Sonders and Madicken. She loved Anne of Green Gables and the Pollyanna books. Pippi Longstocking was published in Sweden in 1945 and was an instant success with children. As a child, Astrid loved to read, particularly books which had girls as the heroine. Astrid Lindgren was born Astrid Ericsson on Novemon a farm called Nas outside the small town of Vimmerby in Sweden. ![]()
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