{"id":2984,"date":"2015-04-20T22:07:21","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T03:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/?p=2984"},"modified":"2015-04-20T22:07:21","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T03:07:21","slug":"lindgren-astrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/lindgren-astrid\/","title":{"rendered":"Lindgren, Astrid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
\"Astrid<\/td>\n\"Pippi<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Christmas<\/td>\n\"Tomten\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Astrid Lindgren was born on November 14, 1907, in Vimmerby, Sweden. With no formal training beyond high school, she wrote Pippi Longstocking<\/i> as a present for her daughter’s 10th birthday.<\/p>\n

Published in 1945, red-haired, strong-willed Pippi differed radically from the familiar literary tradition of the time. Lindgren received the Raben & Sjogren’s best children’s book prize and became a book editor for that publisher for many years. Lindgren went on to publish over 100 books, which have sold tens of millions of copies.<\/p>\n

Her characters have inspired many television and screen adaptations and even a theme park. Lindgren received the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1958 and the Mildred Batchelder Award for Ronia, the Robber’s Daughter<\/i> in 1984. She died in January of 2003 in Stockholm, Sweden, at the age of 94.<\/p>\n

“I don’t consciously try to influence the children who read my books,” Lindgren said. “All I dare hope for is that they may contribute a little bit towards a humane and democratic view of the world in the children who read them.”<\/p>\n

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\u2014 Karen Ritz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Astrid Lindgren was born on November 14, 1907, in Vimmerby, Sweden. With no formal training beyond high school, she wrote Pippi Longstocking as a present for her daughter’s 10th birthday. Published in 1945, red-haired, strong-willed Pippi differed radically from the familiar literary tradition of the time. Lindgren received the Raben & Sjogren’s best children’s book … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1043],"tags":[2099,542,432,408,445,2102,2100,2101],"class_list":["post-2984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-l","tag-astrid-lindgren","tag-author","tag-childrens-books","tag-childrens-literature","tag-hans-christian-andersen-award","tag-mildred-batchelder-award","tag-pippi-longstocking","tag-sweden"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p51Nzs-M8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}