Astrid Lindgren dies at 94

[Olofski]

Swedish author Astrid Lindgren today died at age 94. Her books was translated to more than 80 languages and sold more than 80 million copies world-wide. Among her more famous books are "Pippi Longstocking", "Ronia, the Robbers daughter" and "Emil?s Pranks".

I know this is no U2-topic, but I thought I could post it anyway. Maybe some of you in this forum grew up reading her books, I did.

See you in Nangijala!


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[Lemonboy]

Yeah I just read that!

Sad!

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[U2FReAk]

Oh no...

that's very sad... although she was very old, so I guess it was expected.
I grew up with her books, as millions of others have.
RIP Astrid

 

[IvanClaytonJnr]

Well , she wrote soooo many ingenius books , and lived a long and i'm sure happy life RIP .

 

[elevatedmole]

Nooooo

I love the Pippi books!

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[scatteroflight]

Sad...she was one of several amazing Scandinavian children's writers. Hans Christian Andersen, Tove Jansson (sadly, no one in North American has heard of the Moomins) and Astrid Lindgren. I have to say I wasn't a big fan of Pippi, as far as terrible children went I preferred Emil...and then there was The Children of Noisy Village and Karlsson-on-the-Roof and Ronia the Robber's Daughter and Mio, My Son and the greatest, The Brothers Lionheart, one of the true masterpieces of children's lit and maybe all twentieth-century literature.



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[IvanClaytonJnr]

2ScateroFlight : i love and adore KARLSON !!!!!
But also , yes , you're right Tovvie Janson is great writer with her own world of mummy-trolls , wizards , HEmuls , gee i like all her books , and also i like very much scandinavian auhors ( thier fairy - tales stories , novels are very popular in Ex-USsR countries ).Sorry for going into alittle bit different direction .