Astrid Ericsson Lindgren, the self-described “mother” of freckled Pippi Longstocking whose prodigious writing includes some 115 books, a dozen plays, two dozen screenplays, plus songs and ...

Yvonne Draheim, LL.M., Dr. Patrick Fromlowitz, LL.M. In 1969, the defendant lyricist of the song "Hey, Pippi Langstrumpf" was asked to write the lyrics of the theme song for the German-Swedish ...

Red-haired Longstocking is the main character in the eponymous series of children’s books by celebrated Swedish author Astrid Lindgren. Pippi Longstocking Film In Works From Paddington's ...

A movie based on Pippi Longstocking is in early development from the team behind the two “Paddington” movies Studiocanal and Heyday Films, the production companies announced on Wednesday ...

Popular Swedish author Astrid Lindgren, creator of the freckle-faced, free-spirited Pippi Longstocking, died on Monday at the age of 94. Reaching into her childhood memories of the Swedish ...

Pippi Longstocking Film in Works From StudioCanal, Heyday Films. StudioCanal and David Heyman's Heyday Films are teaming for a feature based on Astrid Lindgren's Pippi Longstocking books.

Pure wish fulfillment was what Astrid Lindgren bequeathed when she wrote the first of her three famous Pippi Longstocking books in the 1940s. “Pippi Longstocking” came out in 1945 in Sweden ...

Robyn Williams: The unflappable Pippi Longstocking. Millions of children have grown up on her adventures, and in Stockholm I had the privilege of meeting her creator, Astrid Lindgren, who has now ...

The Swedish author Astrid Lindgren (1907-2002) is beloved around the world for her best-selling children’s books (most notably “Pippi Longstocking”), but “Becoming Astrid” doesn’t ...

The Pippi Longstocking character originates from bedside stories told by Lindgren to her daughter Karin about a girl with boundless energy, red hair, freckles, a free spirit and superhuman strength.