Jacqueline Woodson, who won a National Book Award for her memoir in verse “Brown Girl Dreaming,” won the 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award on Tuesday. The award comes with a prize of $608,000.

Paddington duo Studiocanal and David Heyman are teaming with the Astrid Lindgren Company to develop a movie based on the classic Pippi Longstocking story. Jeffrey Clifford and Rosie Alison will also ...

Pippi Longstocking was anything but ordinary. The red-haired heroine of Swedish children’s literature took on the world with superhuman strength and unbridled imagination, with no parents to tell her ...

Stockholm is a vibrant city, sprinkled across 14 islands which feature many historical and cultural sites, and an endless selection of bustling restaurants and bars. One of Sweden’s most treasured ...

Astrid Lindgren's great grandson Johan Palmberg said his great grandmother had an exceptionally unusual understanding of children and was interested in the same things as them. According to Palmberg, ...

With some screen biographies, you go in pre-disposed to like the film because you’re hot for the music (“Bohemian Rhapsody”), or you admire the subject’s political brinksmanship (“Darkest Hour”). Or ...

Swedish picture book author and illustrator Eva Lindström was selected from among 282 nominees from 71 countries as this year’s recipient of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the world’s largest ...

In spite of travel restrictions and event cancellations amid the coronavirus outbreak, the international children’s literature community tuned in together to celebrate a major accolade: South Korean ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The psychology of success and wealth and the power of capitalism. What Elizabeth Warren fails to recognize is that the people she ...

The Swedish-language series will be directed by Lisa James Larsson (“Victoria”), and produced by Bonnie Skoog Feeney and Mattias Arehn (“Beartown”) at Filmlance, a Banijay company. Sara Askelöf for ...