All works by astrid lindgren. The amazing life of an amazing storyteller
Biography
Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren (Swedish Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren, née Ericsson, Swedish Ericsson; November 14, 1907 - January 28, 2002) - Swedish writer, author of a number of world famous books for kids.
As Lindgren herself pointed out in the collection of autobiographical sketches "My Fictions" (1971), she grew up in the age of "horse and convertible." The main means of transportation for the family was a horse-drawn carriage, the pace of life was slower, entertainment was simpler, and the relationship with the surrounding nature was much closer than today. This environment contributed to the development of a love of nature in the writer - this feeling is imbued with all Lindgren's work, from eccentric stories about the pirate's daughter Peppi Long stocking to the story of Ronnie, the robber's daughter.
Astrid Eriksson was born on November 14, 1907 in southern Sweden, in the small town of Vimmerby in the province of Småland (Kalmar County), into a farming family. She became the second child of Samuel August Ericsson and his wife Hannah. Father was engaged agriculture on a rented farm in Nes, a pastor's estate on the very outskirts of the town. Together with her older brother, Gunnar, three sisters grew up in the family - Astrid, Stina and Ingegerd. The writer herself always called her childhood happy (there were many games and adventures in it, interspersed with work on the farm and in its environs) and pointed out that it was this that served as a source of inspiration for her work. Astrid's parents not only felt deep affection for each other and for their children, but also did not hesitate to show it, which was a rarity at that time. The writer spoke about the special relationship in the family with great sympathy and tenderness in her only book not addressed to children - Samuel August from Sevedstorp and Hannah from Hult (1973).
Start creative activity
As a child, Astrid Lindgren was surrounded by folklore, and many jokes, fairy tales, stories that she heard from her father or from friends later formed the basis of her own works. The love of books and reading, as she later admitted, arose in the kitchen of Christine, with whom she was friends. It was Christine who introduced Astrid to an amazing, exciting world that you could get into by reading fairy tales. The impressionable Astrid was shocked by this discovery, and later she herself mastered the magic of the word.
Her abilities became apparent already in primary school, where Astrid was called "Wimmerbyun's Selma Lagerlöf", which, in her own opinion, she did not deserve.
Astrid Lindgren in 1924
After school, at the age of 16, Astrid Lindgren began working as a journalist for the local newspaper Wimmerby Tidningen. But two years later, she became pregnant without being married, and, leaving the position of junior reporter, left for Stockholm. There she graduated from the secretary courses and in 1931 found a job in this specialty. In December 1926, her son Lars was born. Since there was not enough money, Astrid had to give her beloved son to Denmark, to the family of adoptive parents. In 1928, she got a job as secretary at the Royal Auto Club, where she met Sture Lindgren. They married in April 1931, and after that Astrid was able to take Lars home.
Years of creativity
After marriage, Astrid Lindgren decided to become a housewife in order to fully devote herself to caring for Lars, and then of her daughter Karin, who was born in 1934. In 1941, the Lindgrens moved into an apartment overlooking Stockholm's Vasa Park, where the writer lived until her death. Occasionally undertaking secretarial work, she wrote travel descriptions and rather commonplace fairy tales for family magazines and Christmas calendars, which gradually honed her literary skills.
According to Astrid Lindgren, Pippi Longstocking (1945) was born primarily thanks to her daughter Karin. In 1941, Karin fell ill with pneumonia, and every night Astrid told her all sorts of stories before going to bed. Once a girl ordered a story about Pippi Longstocking - she invented this name right there, on the go. So Astrid Lindgren began to write a story about a girl who does not submit to any conditions. Since Astrid then defended a new and controversial idea of parenting, taking into account child psychology, then the challenge to convention seemed to her an amusing thought experiment. If we consider the image of Pippi in a generalized sense, then it is based on the innovative ideas that appeared in the 1930s-40s in the field of child education and child psychology. Lindgren followed and participated in the controversy unfolding in society, advocating for an education that would take into account the thoughts and feelings of children and thus show respect for them. The new approach to children affected her creative manner, as a result of which she became an author consistently speaking from the point of view of a child. After the first story about Pippi, which Karin fell in love with, Astrid Lindgren told more and more evening tales about this red-haired girl. On Karin's tenth birthday, Astrid Lindgren made a shorthand record of several stories, from which she then made a self-made book for her daughter (with illustrations by the author). This original Pippi manuscript was less elaborate stylistically and more radical in ideas. The writer sent one copy of the manuscript to the largest Stockholm publishing house Bonnier. After some deliberation, the manuscript was rejected. Astrid Lindgren was not discouraged by the refusal, she already understood that composing for children is her vocation. In 1944, she took part in a competition for the best book for girls, announced by the relatively new and little-known publishing house Raben and Sjögren. Lindgren won second prize for Britt-Marie Pours Out Her Soul (1944) and her publishing deal. In 1945, Astrid Lindgren was offered the position of children's literature editor at Raben & Sjögren. She accepted the offer and worked in one position until 1970, when she officially retired. All her books were published in the same publishing house. Despite being extremely busy and combining editorial work with household duties and writing, Astrid turned out to be a prolific writer: if you count picture books, she produced a total of about eighty works from her pen. The work was especially productive in the 40s and 50s. Between 1944 and 1950 alone, Astrid Lindgren composed a trilogy about Pippi Longstocking, two stories about children from Bullerby, three books for girls, a detective story, two collections of fairy tales, a collection of songs, four plays and two picture books. As you can see from this list, Astrid Lindgren was an unusually versatile author, willing to experiment in the most different genres... In 1946, she published the first story about the detective Kalle Blumkvist (Kalle Blumkvist plays), thanks to which she won the first prize at literary competition(Astrid Lindgren did not participate in the competitions anymore). In 1951, a sequel followed, "Kalle Blumkvist at Risk" (in Russian, both stories were published in 1959 under the title "The Adventures of Kalle Blumkvist"), and in 1953 - the final part of the trilogy, "Kalle Blumkvist and Rasmus" (was translated into Russian in 1986). "Kalle Blumkvistom" the writer wanted to replace the readers of the cheap thrillers glorifying violence. In 1954, Astrid Lindgren composed the first of her three fairy tales- "Mio, my Mio!" (trans. 1965). This emotional, dramatic book combines the techniques of a heroic legend and fairy tale, and it tells the story of Boo Wilhelm Ohlsson, the unloved and neglected son of adoptive parents. Astrid Lindgren has repeatedly resorted to a fairy tale and a fairy tale, touching upon the fate of lonely and abandoned children (this was the case before "Mio, my Mio!"). Bring comfort to children, help them overcome difficult situations- this task, not least of all, moved the work of the writer. In the next trilogy - "The Kid and Carlson Who Lives on the Roof" (1955; trans. 1957), "Karlson, who lives on the roof, has flown again" (1962; translated. 1965) and "Carlson, who lives on the roof, is playing pranks again ”(1968; trans. 1973) - again a kind of fantasy hero is acting. This "moderately well-fed", infantile, greedy, boastful, pouty, self-pitying, egocentric, although not devoid of charm, lives on the roof of the apartment building where the Kid lives. As an imaginary friend of the Kid, he is a much less wonderful image of childhood than the unpredictable and carefree Pippi. The Kid is the youngest of three children in the most ordinary family of Stockholm bourgeois, and Carlson enters his life in a very specific way - through the window, and he does this every time the Kid feels superfluous, left out or humiliated, in other words, when the boy feels sorry for himself ... In such cases, his compensatory alter-ego appears - in all respects "the best in the world" Carlson, who makes the Kid forget about the troubles. Screen adaptations and theatrical performances 1969 the illustrious Stockholm Royal drama theatre staged "Carlson Who Lives on the Roof", which was unusual for that time. Since then, dramatizations based on Astrid Lindgren's books have been constantly shown in both large and small theaters in Sweden, Scandinavia, Europe and the United States of America. A year before the staging in Stockholm, the play about Karlsson was shown on the stage of the Moscow Satire Theater, where he is still played (this hero is very popular in Russia). If on a global scale, the work of Astrid Lindgren attracted attention primarily due to theater performances, then in Sweden the fame of the writer was greatly facilitated by films and television series based on her works. The first to be filmed were the story of Kalle Blumkvist - the movie premiered on Christmas Day 1947. Two years later, the first of four films about Pippi Longstocking appeared. From the 1950s to the 1980s, the renowned Swedish director Olle Hellbum created a total of 17 films based on Astrid Lindgren's books. Visual interpretations The Hellbooms, with their ineffable beauty and sensibility to the literary word, have become classics of Swedish children's cinema. Social activity Over the years literary activity Astrid Lindgren earned more than one million crowns selling the rights to publish her books and their film adaptations, to release audio and video cassettes, and later also CDs with recordings of her songs or literary works v own performance, but did not change her lifestyle in the least. Since the 1940s, she lived in the same - rather modest - Stockholm apartment and preferred not to accumulate wealth, but to distribute money to others. Unlike many Swedish celebrities, she was not even averse to transferring a significant portion of her income to the Swedish tax authorities. Only once, in 1976, when the tax they collected amounted to 102% of her profits, Astrid Lingren protested. On March 10 of the same year, she went on the offensive, sending an open letter to the Stockholm newspaper Expresssen, in which she told a story about a certain Pomperipossa from Monismania. In this fairy tale for adults, Astrid Lindgren took the position of a layman or a naive child (as Hans Christian Andersen did before her in The King's New Dress) and, using it, tried to expose the vices of society and general pretense. In the year when the parliamentary elections were coming, this tale became an almost undisguised, crushing attack on the bureaucratic, smug and self-serving apparatus of the Swedish Social Democratic Party, which had been in power for over 40 years in a row. Although at first the Minister of Finance Gunnar Strang took up arms against the writer and tried to ridicule her, a heated debate ensued, the tax law was changed, and (as many believe, not without the help of Astrid Lindgren) autumn elections in the Riksdag the Social Democrats were defeated. The writer herself was a member of the Social Democratic Party all her adult life - and remained in its ranks after 1976. And she objected primarily to the distance from the ideals that Lindgren remembered from her youth. When she was once asked what path she would have chosen for herself if she had not become a famous writer, she answered without hesitation that she would like to take part in the social democratic movement of the initial period. The values and ideals of this movement have played - along with humanism - a fundamental role in Astrid Lindgren's character. Her inherent desire for equality and caring attitude towards people helped the writer overcome the barriers erected by her high position in society. She treated everyone with the same cordiality and respect, be it the Swedish prime minister, the head of a foreign state, or one of her child readers. In other words, Astrid Lindgren lived according to her convictions, which is why she became an object of admiration and respect, both in Sweden and abroad. Lindgren's open letter with the tale of Pomperipossa was so influential because by 1976 she was not only a famous writer: she enjoyed not only fame, but also great respect in Sweden. An important person, a person known throughout the country, she became thanks to numerous appearances on radio and television. Thousands of Swedish children have grown up listening to the author's books by Astrid Lindgren on the radio. Her voice, her face, her opinions, her sense of humor have been familiar to most Swedes since the 50s and 60s, when she hosted various quizzes and talk shows on radio and television. In addition, Astrid Lindgren won the people over with her performances in defense of such a typically Swedish phenomenon as universal love to nature and reverence for its beauty. In the spring of 1985, when the daughter of a Smoland farmer spoke publicly about harassment of farm animals, the prime minister himself listened to her. Lindgren heard about the mistreatment of animals on large farms in Sweden and other industrialized countries from Christina Forslund, a veterinarian and professor at Uppsala University. Seventy-eight-year-old Astrid Lindgren sent an open letter to the largest Stockholm newspapers. The letter contained another tale - about a loving cow protesting against mistreatment of livestock. With this tale, the writer began a campaign that lasted three years. In June 1988, the Animal Welfare Act was passed, which was given the Latin name Lex Lindgren (Lindgren Act); however, his inspirer did not like him for his vagueness and deliberately low efficiency. As with other times where Lindgren stood up for the well-being of children, adults, or environment , the writer started from her own experience and her protest was caused by deep emotional excitement. She understood that at the end of the 20th century it was impossible to return to small-scale cattle breeding, which she witnessed in childhood and adolescence on her father's farm and in neighboring farms. She demanded something more fundamental: respect for animals, since they are also living beings and endowed with feelings. Astrid Lindgren's deep belief in nonviolent methods of conversion extended to animals and children alike. “Not Violence,” she called her speech when she was awarded the 1978 Peace Prize for the German Bookselling (she received for the story “The Brothers the Lionheart” (1973; translated. 1981) and for the writer's struggle for peaceful coexistence and a dignified life for all) Living creatures). In this speech, Astrid Lindgren defended her pacifist beliefs and advocated raising children without violence and corporal punishment. “We all know,” Lindgren reminded, “that children who are beaten and abused will themselves beat and abuse their children, and therefore this vicious circle must be broken.” Astrid Sture's husband died in 1952. In 1961 her mother died, eight years later her father, and in 1974 her brother and several close friends died. Astrid Lindgren more than once faced the mystery of death and pondered over it a lot. If Astrid's parents were sincere adherents of Lutheranism and believed in life after death, then the writer herself called herself an agnostic. Awards In 1958, Astrid Lindgren was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Medal, known as the Nobel Prize in Children's Literature. In addition to awards for purely children's writers, Lindgren received a number of prizes for "adult" authors, in particular, the Karen Blixen medal established by the Danish Academy, the Russian Leo Tolstoy medal, the Chilean Gabriela Mistral Prize and the Swedish Selma Lagerlöf Prize. In 1969, the writer received the Swedish State Prize for Literature. Her achievements in the field of philanthropy were recognized by the German Bookselling Peace Prize for 1978 and the Albert Schweitzer Medal for 1989 (awarded by the American Institute for the Improvement of Animal Lives). The writer died on January 28, 2002 in Stockholm. Astrid Lindgren is one of the world's most famous children's writers. Her works are imbued with fantasy and love for children. Many of them have been translated into over 70 languages and published in over 100 countries. In Sweden, she became a living legend, as she entertained, inspired and consoled more than one generation of readers, participated in political life, changed laws and significantly influenced the development of children's literature.
Astrid Lindgren was born on November 14, 1907 in the city of Vimmerby (southern Sweden), into a farming family. Her talent began to show in elementary school. At the age of 16 he graduated from high school and started working as a journalist for the Wimmerby Tidningen newspaper. At 18, she became pregnant and quit her job to move to Stockholm. Her child, Lars, was born in December 1926, and in 1928 she took a job as a secretary at the Royal Auto Club. There she met her husband Sture Lindgren. In 1931 they registered a marriage, and in 1934 the Lindgrens had a joint daughter, Karin.
1945 Pippi Longstocking came about thanks to her daughter Karin. The little-known and new publishing house "Raben and Sjogren" announced a competition in 1944, in which Astrid won second place for the story "Brit-Marie pours out her soul" and the publishing contract for it. From 1945 to 1970, Lindgren worked as an editor of children's literature at the same publishing house. She has written approximately 80 works. From 1944 to 1950 she wrote the Pippi Longstocking trilogy, 2 picture books, 3 books for girls, 2 collections of fairy tales, a collection of songs, four plays, a detective story, 2 stories about children from Bullerby. In 1946 - the first story "Kalle Blumkvist plays", 1951 - "Kalle Blumkvist takes risks" and in 1953 - the last part trilogy, "Kalle Blumkvist and Rasmus". Composes the first of 3 fairy tales "Mio, my Mio" in 1954. From 1955 to 1968 composes a trilogy about Carlson and Malysh. The first production about Carlson Who Lives on the Roof was staged by the Royal Drama Theater in Stockholm. On Christmas Day 1947 the film about Kalle Blumkvist premiered. In 1949, the first film about Pippi Longstocking was released. In 1973 she wrote the only book not for children "Samuel August from Sevedstorp and Hanna from Hult"
The writer has lived in the same apartment since 1940. She was a member of the Social Democratic Party even after 1976.
She received the Peace Prize in 1978 and the Albert Schweitzer Medal 1989 for the novel "The Lionheart Brothers" 1973 and for the fact that she fought for a peaceful coexistence and a dignified life for all living beings. In 1958 Astrid received the Hans Christian Andersen medal, the Karen Blixen medal of the Danish Academy, the Russian Leo Tolstoy medal, the Swedish Selma Lagerlöf prize, and the Gabriela Mistral Chilean prize. Swedish State Prize for Literature - 1969
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An important part of the writer's work was her desire to help children overcome their sorrows and difficulties. Astrid Lindgren's fairy tales recreate the various difficulties in life of children and describe ways to solve them.
Carlson and Peppy: Story Reading Order
Astrid Lindgren
Astrid Lindgren was born in Sweden in 1907. Full name Writers: Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren. Thanks to the translator Lungina, Lindgren's tales became known to us. The best of these are the stories of Carlson and Pippi Longstocking.
Since childhood, Astrid lived with her parents, brother and younger sisters outside the city, since then she has endlessly fell in love with nature and carried this love through all her works. The girl's family was strong, the relationship between parents and children was respectful, they were strongly attached to each other, which also could not but affect the works of Astrid in the future. They are all very kind.
After moving to Stockholm after school, Astrid Lindgren went through many obstacles in life. Having given birth to a child still very young, she could not feed herself and her son. Astrid had to give the baby to a foster family. However, over time, her life improved. Astrid got married, took her son and gave birth to her second child - daughter Karin.
About Astrid Lindgren's Tales
Astrid Lindgren dedicated fairy tales to her daughter, telling them at night, composing on the go the adventures of a red-haired girl, whom Karin herself named Pippi Longstocking. For her daughter's 10th birthday, Astrid compiled a book about Peppy's adventures and even painted it as a gift for her child.
Astrid has always been fascinated by her ability to create non-standard pieces with fun characters. For her story about the detective Kalle Blumkvist in 1946, she received the first prize in her life.
Soon, the Astrid trilogy - The Kid and Carlson was published, which became a masterpiece of world literature. The world's best Carlson helped the Kid to forget about all the troubles and worries, he became his friend.
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Biography, life story of Astrid Lindgren
Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren is a Swedish writer.Childhood
Astrid was born on November 14, 1907 in the small town of Vimmerby (southern Sweden) into a friendly farming family. The year before, u madly loving friend a boyfriend of Samuel August Ericsson and Hannah Jonsson, the boy Gunnar was born. A little later, two more girls appeared in the family - Stina Puka and Ingegerd in 1911 and 1916, respectively.
As a child, Astrid adored nature - she was delighted with every new dawn, she was surprised at every flower, every leaf of every tree touched her to the core. Astrid's father, wishing to entertain his children, often told them different interesting stories, many of which, by the way, later became the basis for the works of the adult Astrid.
In elementary school, Astrid was already actively showing her writing skills. Teachers and classmates sometimes even called her Vemmirbün Selma Lagerlef (Selma Lagerlef is a famous Swedish writer, the first woman in world history who was awarded Nobel Prize in the field of literature). Astrid herself, it should be noted, was very flattering to hear something like that addressed to her, but she was firmly convinced that she did not deserve comparison with such a great writer.
Young years
At sixteen, Astrid graduated from high school. Immediately thereafter, she began working as a journalist for a local newspaper called Wimmerby Tidningen. She worked there for two years, rising to the position of junior reporter. True, at the age of eighteen, Astrid had to leave her career as a journalist - the girl became pregnant and was forced to look for a quieter job.
Personal life
Already in position, Astrid left for Stockholm. There she successfully completed the secretarial courses. In December 1926, Astrid gave birth to a boy. She named her son Lars. Alas, Astrid had no money at all to support the child and she had to give the boy to a foster family in Denmark. In 1928, Astrid got a job as a secretary at the Royal Auto Club. At work, she met Sture Lindgren. The young people began dating, gradually their sympathy grew into true love... In April 1931 Astrid and Sture were married. Astrid quickly changed her maiden name Ericsson to the last name of her husband and was finally able to take Lars to her place and give her son a real family.
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After Astrid got married, she decided to devote herself entirely to her family. In 1934, she gave birth to a daughter, Karin. Astrid devoted all her free time to her husband and children. True, sometimes she still took up the pen, composing little fairy tales for family magazines and making descriptions of other people's travels.
Astrid and Sture have lived together for many happy years... In 1952, at the age of fifty-four, the head of the family died.
Writing career
In 1945, the first book by Astrid Lindgren, Pippi Longstocking, was published. Fairy tale with deep meaning became a real explosion in the world of literature. And she appeared quite by accident. In 1941, little Karin fell ill with pneumonia. Astrid sat by her daughter's bed every night, telling her different fairy tales, which she composed on the go. One evening she got the idea to tell her daughter about a funny girl who does not obey anyone's rules and lives as she pleases. After this incident, Astrid began to write on the sly about Pippi.
Astrid's daughters really liked the stories about Pippi, she regularly asked her mother to tell her about the new adventures of a funny girl. And Astrid told, inventing stories that made Karin breathless. On her tenth birthday, Karin Astrid gave her a homemade book about Pippi Longstocking. But the clever Astrid made two manuscripts - one of them she sent to the large Stockholm publishing house Bonnier. However, at that time the publishers rejected Astrid, believing that her book is still very raw.
In 1944, Astrid Lindgren entered the competition for the best book for girls, which was held by a small publishing house. Lindgren finished second and signed an agreement with the publisher to publish Britt-Marie Pours Out Her Soul. A year later, she was offered to become an editor of children's literature at the same publishing house. Astrid happily agreed. She worked in this position until 1970, after which she retired on a well-deserved retirement. All of Astrid's books have been published by her own publishing house.
Throughout her life, Astrid Lindgren managed to write more than twenty works, among which there is a trilogy beloved by children of the whole world about the adventures of Carlson - a cheerful and insanely sweet man in his prime, who lives on the roof.
Based on the books of Astrid Lindgren, performances have been staged more than once, her novels were often filmed. Many critics claim that Astrid Lindgren's works will be relevant at all times.
Social activity
Astrid Lindgren has always been famous for her kindness. So, despite the fact that she earned more than one million crowns for her literary creations, she spent little on herself. She did not know how to save money, but she was always ready to help others. She spoke in public more than once, calling people to humanism, to mutual respect, to love for all that exists.
In the spring of 1985, Astrid Lindgren turned her close attention to the abuse of farm animals by people on many farms. Astrid, who at that time was already seventy-eight years old, immediately wrote a fairy-tale letter to all the major newspapers in Stockholm. In a fairy tale, the writer told how one very cute cow protested against the bad and inhuman treatment of livestock. Thus began a major campaign against animal cruelty that lasted for three years. In 1988, the authorities finally passed the "Lindgren Act" - the law on the protection of animals.
Astrid Lindgren has always stood for pacifism, for kindness towards everything - towards children, towards adults, towards animals, towards plants ... She firmly believed that universal love can save this world from destruction. The writer insisted that parents should not beat their offspring in order to educate, so that animals should not be treated like pieces of furniture, soulless and insensitive, so that people should treat both the poor and the rich with equal respect. The ideal world in the understanding of Astrid Lindgren is a world in which living organisms live in harmony and harmony.
Death
Astrid Lindgren died on January 28, 2002 at her apartment in Stockholm. She lived a very long (at the time of her death she was already ninety-four years old) and an amazing life, giving the world immortal literary masterpieces.
The body of the great writer is buried in the cemetery in her hometown Vimmerby.
Awards and prizes
Astril won a medal in 1958
The biography of Astrid Lindgren, the legendary writer (nee Ericsson), began on November 14, 1907. Thanks to her talent, the world has found the images of Carlson, a detective and a mischievous girl Pippi.
The writer herself was somewhat like her characters. According to the recollections of acquaintances, she easily won over everyone with whom she communicated. Many wrote her letters. Astrid managed to correspond with a great number of people, despite her busyness, answering each message on her own.
Astrid Lindgren, a brief biography of which is described in the article, has worshiped exclusively the religion of childhood, children and their stories all her life.
Ericsson family
The early years of the future writer passed among the picturesque landscapes of the Näs farm, near the small town of Vimmerby (Kalmar county), in southern Sweden.
Astrid's parents were Samuel and Hannah. They met as teenagers, Hannah was barely 14 by that time. Their childhood romance lasted for another 4 years and ended in marriage. According to Astrid, the feelings of her parents were stronger than in book love stories, they lived in perfect harmony, laughed and joked a lot, never quarreled. Later, she will describe her parents' novel in one of her works.
In the Ericsson family, self-indulgence was forgiven for each of the 4 children, provided that they work with no less passion. And so it was - the children willingly helped their parents with the housework. Astrid has been working on a farm since she was 6 years old. Free time she devoted to games, some of her childhood amusements she later recreated in books.
Soon began school time, and her favorite pastimes were study, music and literature.
Astrid Lindgren: biography
The author of such children's books as "Carlson Who Lives on the Roof", "Pippi Longstocking", "Mio, my Mio", "The famous detective Kalle Blomkvist", "Emil from Lönneberg", "Katy in Paris" and others. school is great. She had especially striking achievements in the field of languages and literature. Her essay was even published in the newspaper. Since then, a playful nickname has been assigned to the girl: "Selma Lagerlef from Vimmerby."
The certificate also noted the talent of the graduate in needlework, making a pedagogical conclusion that she would become a wonderful wife and hostess.
However, she was in no hurry to get married and, after graduating from school, went to work for a nearby newspaper as a reporter. At the same time, cinema, jazz and short hair appeared in the life of young Astrid, which outraged the Puritan society of the Nes farm. A truly shocking event for local neighbors happened a little later: a girl who had barely reached the age of 18 told her family that she was pregnant. The biography of Astrid Lindgren (then Ericsson) gave sharp turn.
Stockholm period
Astrid did not like to dwell on the personality of the father of her child, she never spoke about it. There is a version that he was the editor of the newspaper in which the girl worked - Axel Bloomberg. True or fictional, but Astrid did not get married, preferring to leave the disgraced family and move to Stockholm. Although the parents took her side and did not want to let go of themselves, saying that they were ready to help the young mother in everything and already love the future grandson.
The new mistress, out of sympathy for Astrid, left the born child with her for a while, while his mother got to her feet. Under pressure from circumstances, Astrid was forced to leave for Sweden to work, but she rushes to her baby Lars every time she can carve out a little time.
Marriage
In a series of endless journeys from one country to another in 1928, Astrid got an interview at the Royal Automobile Club and was accepted as secretary. Now her financial position gained stability, but the baby son still remained in Denmark. Samuel and Hannah suddenly came to the rescue, who had been looking for a long time how to contact their daughter. So baby Lars met his grandparents, and began to live in the same country with his mother.
Having received a temporary respite, Astrid did not even have time to recover, as a terrible danger loomed over her son. He required special treatment, for which the Ericsson simply did not have the money. For the sake of saving the child, Astrid humbled her pride and went for help to her boss named Sture Lindgren, and he did not refuse. And Astrid immortalized his name in return.
Astrid Lindgren's biography was replenished with a new event: she became the wife of Sture. After marriage, she left the service and plunged headlong into family chores, as predicted to her in the pedagogical conclusion. Sture officially formalized paternity for Lars, and Astrid after a while gave birth to a daughter, Karen.
Peppy heals Karen
In 1941, Astrid moved with her husband and children to new apartment and Karen suddenly fell ill with pneumonia. The therapy did not give a positive result. Astrid sat with her daughter all night long and, out of despair, began to tell her stories. Karen suddenly became interested and even named the heroine Pippi Langstrump, which in Russian would be called Pippi Longstocking. Astrid easily complemented the image and introduced several new characters - friends for Pippi. Karen ate, took pills, and her cheeks turned pink, and Astrid Lindgren's biography once again took a sharp turn. Astrid was inventing more and more more stories about Peppy, and the unusual remedy has borne fruit. Karen began to recover, and her mother, who became akin to the fidget Peppy, began to transfer her stories to paper.
Copies of the completed manuscript found themselves on the desks of the editors. All, as one, were horrified by the bad manners the main character and hastened to refuse the author. Astrid didn't break it. She continued to create and with her work Brit Marie pours out her soul, she won the second prize at the famous publishing house and the right to publish the story at the competition.
The first part of the Pippi trilogy appeared to the world later, in 1945. This event was the triumphant entry of Astrid Lindgren (biography, the author's books are described in the article) into literature for children.
In the prime of the creative path
Since the first publication, the books have come out with enviable consistency to the delight of fans. 10 years after the release of "Pippi ...", in 1955, the first book of the Carlson trilogy appears on book shelves. Astrid was ready to swear on the tale of Pippi that she personally knew a funny little man with a propeller. Karen, on the other hand, recalls that the story about Carlson grew out of a short story in which the flying Mr. Schwarb met a boy to brighten up gray days serious illness.
In 1957, Astrid Lindgren won the Literary Achievement Award. She is the first of the authors of children's books.
Life after creativity
By the 1980s, Astrid had completed her writing career, but did not retire. Her son Lars said that not only in her youth, her mother preferred noisy games with a crowd of babies to decorous conversations on a bench in the company of other parents, but she retained her habits even in old age. One day, puzzled onlookers found Astrid in a tree, and she calmly noticed that there was no official ban on this kind of leisure for the elderly.
Charity
But beyond entertainment, Astrid had a lot to worry about. All her funds, accumulated over the years of creative activity, were spent on the fight against injustice and the connivance of the government. Corresponding with fans, she found out who needed help.
Astrid sponsored the opening of a specialized center for children with disabilities... With its filing in 1988, the "Lindgren Law" was adopted, which protects animals, in Europe, a law was passed on the protection of minors.
The writer's charitable work could not remain without a response from society. Astrid reacted with kind irony to all the rewards for her merits. For example, already suffering from impairment of hearing and sight, she, examining the monument erected in her honor with her hands, summed up at the end: “They look like”. When the small planet was given her name, Astrid jokingly declared that she could now be called an Asteroid. Compatriots recognized their favorite as the Person of the Year almost before her death, and she gave them advice to think another time who to choose for this role, so that no one would decide that everyone in Sweden is old, deaf and blind.
Astrid Lindgren left this world at the age of 94, in 2002, on January 28. Long life she finished in an empty apartment, having managed to bury not only Sture, but also Lars.
The writer was posthumously nominated for the Nobel Prize.
Life after Life
For achievements in the professional field, Astrid Lindgren, whose biography is described in the article, is named the prize of her native publishing house. Her daughter continues to develop social ideas mother.
Even after death, the writer gives her Magic world- there is a Junibacken museum in Stockholm, where, among other things, you can look into Carlson's house while he flies away to play pranks.
A huge number of children around the world continue to discover wonderful world Astrid Lindgren. A short biography for children will be as interesting as for adult admirers of her talent. Despite the difference in tastes, everyone in her books finds a character for themselves. So, for example, in Russia Carlson is the most popular, and in Sweden he is not half as popular as Pippi.
Biography of Astrid Lindgren for children and adults contains a lot interesting facts... For example, once the creator of both of these heroes was asked what it takes to make the reader like the book. Astrid replied that she did not have any special recipes, the book for children should simply be good. She just wanted the children to laugh and have fun.
Astrid Lindgren, a biography whose books will be of interest to her fans for many years to come, left behind a rich legacy: 52 works, many of them were filmed.
The writer whose centenary was celebrated in last year, was born on November 14, 1907 in southern Sweden, in the small town of Vimmerby in the family of a farmer. “There were four of us,” Astrid wrote about her childhood, “and we lived in Nes. happy life, exactly the same as the children in my stories about the Shumny farm ”. All neighbors and acquaintances were amazed at what it was loving family, parents until the end of their lives retained deep affection for each other and for their children.
In the Erickson family ( maiden name Astrid) children were not scolded for numerous pranks, but they did not encourage idleness - from the age of six Astrid, her sisters and brother were already working hard - helping their parents work on the farm.
The girl studied well, was especially successful in languages and literature, once her essay was even published in the local newspaper, after which Astrid began to jokingly call “Selma Lagerlef from Vimmerby”.
It is noteworthy that, having matured, the whole family lived with a community of interests.
One of her sisters became a translator, the other became a journalist, her brother became a politician, a member of the Swedish parliament - to this, Astrid's father, who himself was an excellent storyteller, said: “I have amazing children! Everyone works with words ... "
Meanwhile, having matured, a young girl, who from childhood was distinguished by her stubborn and wayward character, decided to get out of parental care, got a job as a journalist, as a real "informal girl" did short hair, became interested in jazz and fashionable dances.
And suddenly - a disaster - nineteen-year-old Astrid became pregnant after parting with the child's father. In a small Protestant town in the 1920s, it seemed like an unheard of shame, and Astrid went to Stockholm, where no one knew her.
The new life was full of difficulties, moreover, due to the unsettledness of the newborn son, they had to be given to a foster family, subsequently both of them experienced it as a difficult drama.
Astrid worked for a long time in the office of a secretary, until a turning point came in her fate - she met a man whose surname later became world famous. In 1931, they got married, and only after that Astrid was able to take her son Lars.
Soon, Astrid and her husband Sture have a daughter, Karin, and, probably, from that moment on, she herself was born as a writer. When the baby got sick, Astrid would tell her every night before going to bed extraordinary stories, this is how Pippi Longstocking appeared - one of the most famous little heroines of children's literature. “The girl in different stockings very much reminded me of myself,” Lindgren admitted, perhaps that is why the children always adored the leprosy of the red-haired rebel, and experts wrote about the beneficial effect of the heroine on the mental health of children: “Pippi - fictional character, embodying a childhood dream to violate all prohibitions, to feel their power and do whatever you want as soon as it comes to mind. The book has become an emergency escape from the everyday and authoritarian regime - this is the secret of the book's unheard-of success among children. "
Lindgren advocated an upbringing that would take into account and respect the thoughts and feelings of the child, this affected all of her work. This may be why her manuscript "Peppy" was initially rejected by the publishers, and she received a publishing contract award only in 1944 for her second book, Britt-Marie Pours Out Her Soul.
Between 1944 and 1950, Astrid Lindgren wrote a trilogy about Pippi Longstocking, two stories about children from Bullerby, three books for girls, a detective story, two collections of fairy tales, a collection of songs, four plays and two picture books. As you can see from this list, Astrid Lindgren was an unusually versatile writer, willing to experiment in a wide variety of genres.
In 1945, Astrid Lindgren became the editor of children's literature at Raben & Sjögren, where her books were published.
A few years later, the writer published the first of three books about the adventures of the young detective Kalle Blumkvist, which brought her first place in a literary competition, and in 1955 the first story about a “moderately well-fed” man who lived on the roof, named Karlson, was born. Few people know that the mischievous little selfish Carlson had amazing prototypes - the little gnome - Little Nils Karlsson and the flying mister Lillonquast (literally, "a broom of lilies") from the fairy tale "The Country Between Light and Dark" ("The Country of Twilight"), - one of her most poetic creations, reminiscent of Lewis's "Narnia", where sad lonely children are magic heroes taking away to the land of fantasies. Mischief and leprosy are like back side with which children, like herself, try to fence themselves off from the cruel world.
Mio ends up in magic land, only when it freezes in the park, the knight Nils from the Oak Grove recovers, when in the fairy kingdom his head is cut off, Carlson flies to the Kid, because he lacks love, Mr. Lillonquast flies with the boy through the air, because he is disabled and cannot walk , the future Carlson in him could only be recognized by the constant phrase: “It has neither the slightest... Not the slightest significance in the Country between Light and Darkness ", in which one can already see the famous" Trifles, it’s a matter of everyday life. "
Throughout her life, Lindgren, despite the fact that she became a wealthy writer, remained the most modest person, until her death she lived in the same house in which her family settled during the war.
Her opinion was very important in the spheres of public life,
In Sweden, under the influence of her speeches, the first law in Europe on the protection of the rights of the child was adopted.
The eldest son Lars, as a child, was proud of his mother and, having already matured, he loved to talk about her hooligan actions. Once Astrid jumped on a tram at full speed. Not only did she lose her shoe during the jump, but she was also fined by the conductor. They say that the writer, even at a venerable age, retained the habit of climbing trees. “She was not the kind of mother who would sit on a park bench watching children play. She had to participate in all the games herself, and frankly, I suspect she liked it as much as I did! ” - recalled Lars.
Lindgren gives children a fairy tale after his death. There is Astrid Lindgren's Junibacken Museum in Stockholm. The fairytale train will take you to the world of the famous Swedish writer: you can visit Karlson's house, who lives on the roof, attend a holiday on Emil's farm, meet the Madiken girl before she takes off from the roof, then suddenly you become very small, like little Niels, and meet nose to nose with ... a huge rat! !! The journey will end with the Lionheart brothers in the battle with the Dragon.
“We will celebrate her birthday by raising money to create orphanage in the Central African Republic, says the writer's daughter Karen, continuing her social work- this, without a doubt, would be the best gift for mom. "
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