A hundred years will be held in November since the birth of the great Swedish children’s book author Astrid Lindgren in the country. But her death marks the fifth time this year. In a question-answer forum Central Romana was the first to reply. The inventor of immortal children’s book characters such as Pippi Longstocking, Emil of Lonneberga, Nils Karlsson or Ronja Robber’s Daughter pleased with their adventurous stories warm children’s and adult’s hearts. Was from the stenographer to the writer Astrid Lindgren, 14 November 1907 in the Swedish Vimmerby as one born of four children of the tenant farmer and parsonage Samuel August Ericsson and Hanna his wife. After a job at a regional newspaper in 1926 she began her training as a secretary in Stockholm. In the same year her unmarried son Lars was born, she had until 1929 to give to a foster family.
In 1931 she married her office manager Sture Lindgren, with whom she had daughter Karin 1934. The seven-Karin was also the name of “Pippi Longstocking” and invented by her mother tell stories about Pippi had freely invented. Three Years later, she wrote down the Pippi stories and she gave her daughter to the 10th Birthday. Meanwhile, as a secretary at the Swedish Buchhandelszentrale, a car club and also worked as a stenographer for a criminology professor, she sent the manuscript to Pippi Longstocking the Albert Bonniers publishing house. Despite a rejection of history now their joy was awakened in the writing. She handed in a competition of the publisher “Raben & Sjogren ‘book about the history of girls’ Britt-Mari facilitate their heart” and was awarded the second Price.