Russia has launched a poster campaign in Moscow featuring ostensibly pro-Nazi quotes from the Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren, the film-maker Ingmar Bergman, and the Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad. "We are against Nazism, but they are not," the poster reads.
Each month, The Local Sweden’s Book Club reads a different book with a Swedish link. Here's what our readers thought of A World Gone Mad: The Diaries of Astrid Lindgren 1939-45, written before the children’s author’s rise to fame.
The Local Sweden's Book Club has been reading the wartime diaries of Astrid Lindgren, in which the children's author documents domestic life alongside world events. We spoke to translator Sarah Death about her relationship with Lindgren and her experience working with the diaries.
A dark secret long held by Swedish author Astrid Lindgren led her to create one of the most beloved heroines of children's literature, Pippi Longstocking, according to a new biopic at the Berlin film festival.
A Swedish daycare’s trip to the local library in Borås took an unexpected turn recently and ended in a police report being filled over racial agitation (hets mot folkgrupp).
A prestigious Swedish prize for young people's literature, in memory of the country's most famous writer Astrid Lindgren, has been awarded to an American children's author.
If you're a children's nurse – is it a good idea to get naked for a saucy calendar? 'Sure,' thought health staff at Sweden's biggest paediatric hospital and landed themselves in very hot water.
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.
An association that promotes reading among children has become the first African group to win the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the world's largest prize for children's and young people's literature.
When xenophobia is passed off as trying to preserve an idealized version of Sweden's past, it's worth considering what sort of stories Astrid Lindgren would have written about the Sweden of today, argues Rasmus Törnblom of the Moderate Youth League (Muf).
The firm holding the image rights to the children's books about Pippi Longstocking has reversed its decision to ban the use of a picture of Pippi's monkey Mr Nilsson in a three-year-old child's obituary.
Parents of a three-year-old boy who died suddenly at the end of last month wanted to include in their child's obituary a picture of Mr Nilsson - the monkey from the famous children's books about Pippi Longstocking. But Saltkråkan Ltd, which owns the image rights, said no.
Dutch children's author Guus Kuijer on Tuesday won the 2012 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, named after the Swedish creator of Pippi Longstocking, said the fund that awards the prize.
A paediatrician charged for having caused the death of a newborn baby at Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital in 2008 has been acquitted by the Solna District Court in a case closely monitored by the Swedish medical community.
The trial against a Swedish doctor accused of infant euthanasia entered its second day on Thursday with the mother of the baby describing the care received as "beneath contempt".
The Stockholm district court ruled on Friday against the heirs of beloved Swedish children's author Astrid Lindgren in a copyright dispute with a company owned by Swedish publisher Bonnier.
Astrid Lindgren's heirs are taking Swedish publisher Bonnier to court for misrepresenting the beloved children author's works and in the process swindling them out of millions of kronor.
Pippi Longstocking by Swedish author Astrid Lindgren has been named among the top 100 books of all time in a major survey of 100 eminent writers from 54 countries and released by the Norwegian Book Clubs.
The life of Astrid Lindgren, the Swedish author behind children's characters such as Pippi Longstocking, is to be made into a feature length film, her daughter has confirmed.
Belgian writer and illustrator Kitty Crowther has won the 2010 Astrid Lidgren Memorial Award for children's literature, a prize named after the Swedish creator of Pippi Longstocking.
Parents of an 18-month-old girl who died after being admitted to the Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital with pneumonia say a shortfall in the quality of care led to their child's death.
A 3-year-old boy suffering from the swine flu died at the weekend at the Astrid Lindgren Children’s Hospital in Stockholm, infuriating the child’s parents who had sought care for him earlier in the week.
Nearly 170 authors and organizations from the world of children’s literature were named on Thursday as finalists for the world’s largest prize in the genre, named for the late Swedish author Astrid Lindgren.
