Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren was a Swedish writer of fiction and screenplays. She is best known for several children's book series, featuring Pippi Longstocking, Emil of Lönneberga, Karlsson-on-the-Roof, and the Six Bullerby Children, and for the children's fantasy novels Mio, My Son, Ronia the Robber's Daughter, and The Brothers Lionheart. Lindgren worked on the Children's Literature Editorial Board at the Rabén & Sjögren publishing house in Stockholm and wrote more than 30 books for children. In 2017, she was calculated to be the world's 18th most translated author. Lindgren had by 2010 sold roughly 167 million books worldwide. In 1994, she was awarded the Right Livelihood Award for "her unique authorship dedicated to the rights of children and respect for their individuality." Her opposition to corporal punishment of children resulted in the world's first law on the matter in 1979, while her campaigning for animal welfare led to a new law, Lex Lindgren, in time for her 80th birthday.
Maire-Ilon Wikland is an Estonian-born Swedish artist and illustrator.
Rabén & Sjögren is a book publishing company in Sweden. It was established in 1942 by Hans Rabén and Carl-Olof Sjögren. Since 1998 it has been part of Norstedts förlag.
Ingelin Angerborn, born 1966 in Gothenburg, is a Swedish author. Angerborn, who writes children's books, made her debut with the picture book Pelle Pyton på friarstråt (2002), illustrated by Eva-Lena Rehnmark. About the girl Tilda, who does everything wrong though it still gets right in the end, is a comic series with titles as Om jag bara inte råkat göra pappa till astronaut (2004), Om jag bara inte råkat säga sanningen (2005) and Om jag bara inte råkat klippa taxfrisyr (2007).
Gunilla Elisabet Dukure Bergström was a Swedish author, journalist, and illustrator. She is best known for her series of children's books about the character Alfie Atkins, which she wrote and illustrated. Books about her character were translated into many languages, and some were adapted into film, television and theatre plays. She received several awards, including the royal Litteris et Artibus.
Cecilia Torudd is a Swedish illustrator and author born in Lund. Since the 1970s, she has been a contributing illustrator for the children's magazine Kamratposten.
Pija Lindenbaum is a Swedish illustrator, author and designer. 1999–2007 she owned the 14th chair of the Swedish Academy for Children's Books. She has illustrated the Tsatsiki books written by Moni Nilsson-Brännström.
Viveca Lärn, earlier Viveca Sundvall, is a Swedish writer and journalist. She is mostly famous for writing the Mimmi and the Eddie children's books series. She has also written books for an adult audience, and many of those books formed the basis for the TV series Saltön.
Vi smyger på Enok is a 1985 Viveca Sundvall children's book in the Mimmi series. Written as a diary, it is set between 19 August-26 December the year Mimm goes in the second grade. Together with En ettas dagbok and Roberta Karlsson och kungen they were later all released in a collection called "Mimmis bok".
Frida Nilsson is a Swedish children’s writer whose first book was published in 2004. She has won numerous international shortlistings and prizes, including the August Prize, the German Youth Literature Prize, Expressens Heffaklump (2015) and the Astrid Lindgren Prize. She was recently chosen as one of the best emerging writers in Europe under 39. Nilsson’s writing is characterised by playfulness and sincerity. She has been compared to Roald Dahl and Barbro Lindgren.
Marit Törnqvist is a Swedish-Dutch author, artist and illustrator. She was best known for her illustrations in the books of Astrid Lindgren.
Grethe Inga Rottböll Sund, née Grethe Inga Poulsen, is a Swedish singer and author. She lives and works in Sweden and writes books for adults and children under´the name Grethe Rottböll. During the 1990s she worked as a singer (mezzo-soprano) in operas and operettas. Since May 2018 she is the chairman of Sveriges Författarförbund.
Marko Lives in Yugoslavia is the title of a book by the Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren, with the photos of Anna Riwkin-Brick. In 1962 the book was published by Rabén & Sjögren.
Scrap and the Pirates, also Skrallan and the Pirates is a children's book written by Astrid Lindgren.
Astrid Lindgren’s plays are a number of theater plays written by Astrid Lindgren in the 1940s to 1970s. Part of the plays are based on her books, other stories were only written for theater. Since almost all of Astrid Lindgren's works have been staged for theater, this page only deals with the plays, whose scripts were written by Astrid Lindgren. Many of these works were published in the Swedish books Sex Pjäser för barn och ungdom (1950), Serverat, Ers Majestät! (1955) and Praeser för barn och ungdom. Other Samlingen (1968). Most of these works have not been translated into English. These include stories about well-known characters such as Kalle Blomquist or Pippi Longstocking, which were only written for the theater and were not published as prose.
Eva Lindström is a Swedish illustrator and author. Her work is known for its humorous and dark style.
Mårten Adolfsson Melin is a Swedish author of children's and youth books, who received the Astrid Lindgren Prize in 2022.
Helena Axelsson Östlund is a Swedish children's writer.
Sara Caroline Lundberg is a Swedish illustrator and writer.
Lisen Adbåge is a Swedish illustrator, comic book writer and children's writer. She is the twin sister of Emma Adbåge, with whom she has often collaborated.
