Tag: Astrid Lindgren
Astrid Lindgren Memorial Prize goes to Australia: Reading promoted by the indigenous community – Culture
This year’s Astrid Lindgren Memorial Prize goes to the Australian organization “Indigenous Literacy Foundation”. Since 2011, the foundation for the promotion of reading in the country’s indigenous communities has been…
Astrid Lindgren Memorial Prize goes to Australia – Culture
This year’s Astrid Lindgren Memorial Prize goes to the Australian organization “Indigenous Literacy Foundation”. Since 2011, the foundation for the promotion of reading in the country’s indigenous communities has been…
Obituary for the musician Georg Riedel: Hymns for Bullerbü – Culture
You probably have to have been through a Swedish winter to understand what a big, loving, almost nature-religious fuss people there make about summer. Or, to get closer to the…
Oetinger House in Hamburg: Where Sams lives – travel
Silke Weitendorf promotes children’s book culture with the foundation named after her – in the house in Hamburg where the Oetinger publishing family has welcomed authors such as Paul Maar…
Biography about Astrid Lindgren: The voice that is missing – culture
In 1978, Astrid Lindgren, white blouse, black jacket, stepped up to a lectern in Frankfurt’s Paulskirche and gave a speech that would become famous, and which, tragically, could actually be…
60 years of Michel from Lönneberga: because of stupid pranks – culture
A personality from Astrid Lindgren’s universe is moving into the limelight – a personality whose complex character has been underestimated for a long time: Emil Svensson from Lönneberga, who is…
Astrid Lindgren Prize winner Laurie Halse Anderson: Great Stories – Culture
Her books are drastic, full of strong feelings: About Laurie Halse Anderson, who was awarded the Astrid Lindgren Prize. Last Tuesday, Laurie Halse Anderson had the laughs on her side.…
Russian posters make Astrid Lindgren a Nazi sympathizer – culture
Of Kai Strittmatter Blue and yellow, in Russia these are the colors of the enemy. “We are against Nazism,” read the posters that appeared at bus stops in Moscow this…
Assrid Lindgren Memorial Prize for Eva Lindstrom – Culture
Probably the most important award for children’s and young adult literature will remain in Sweden this year: the author and illustrator Eva Lindström will receive the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Prize…
It was always about freedom – culture
She is probably the most famous girl in world literature, Pippi Longstocking, who has been the subject of the most debate, from the beginning until today, 20 years after her…