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Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.

Luhansk National University

named after Taras Shevchenko

On the subject: "Children's literature"

on the topic: "Creativity of Astrid Lindgren"

Completed: 4th year student "

Kolomiychenko Natalia.

Sevastopol

Astrid Lingren was born on November 14, 1907 in southern Sweden, in the small town of Vimmerby in the province of Småland (Kalmar County), into a farming family. Her parents - father Samuel August Eriksson and mother Hanna Jonsson - met when they were 13 and 9 years old. Seventeen years later, in 1905, they married and settled in a rented farm in Näs, a pastor's estate on the very outskirts of Vimmerby, where Samuel began farming. Astrid became their second child. She had an older brother Gunnar (July 27, 1906 - May 27, 1974) and two younger sisters - Stina (1911-2002) and Ingegerd (1916-1997).

As Lindgren herself pointed out in the collection of autobiographical essays "My Fictions" (1971), she grew up in the age of "horse and convertible". The family's main means of transportation was a horse-drawn carriage, the pace of life was slower, entertainment was simpler, and the relationship with the surrounding nature was much closer than today. Such an environment contributed to the development of a love for nature in the writer - this feeling is imbued with all Lindgren's work, from eccentric stories about the daughter of Captain Pippi Longstocking, to the story of Ronnie, the daughter of a robber.

The writer herself always called her childhood happy (there were many games and adventures in it, interspersed with work on the farm and in its vicinity) and pointed out that it was this that served as a source of inspiration for her work. Astrid's parents not only felt deep affection for each other and for their children, but also did not hesitate to show it, which was a rarity at that time. The writer spoke about the special relationship in the family with great sympathy and tenderness in her only book not addressed to children - "Samuel August from Sevedstorp and Hannah from Hult" (1973).

As a child, Astrid Lindgren was surrounded by folklore, and many jokes, fairy tales, stories that she heard from her father or from friends later formed the basis of her own works. Love for books and reading, as she later admitted, arose in the kitchen of Christine, with whom she was friends. It was Christine who introduced Astrid to an amazing, exciting world, which one could get into by reading fairy tales. The impressionable Astrid was shocked by this discovery, and later she herself mastered the magic of the word.

Her abilities became evident already in elementary school, where Astrid was called the "Wimmerbühn Selmoy Lagerlöf"which, in her own opinion, she did not deserve.

After school, at the age of 16, Astrid Lindgren began working as a journalist for the local newspaper Wimmerby Tidningen. But two years later, she became pregnant without being married, and, leaving the post of junior reporter, left for Stockholm... There she graduated from the secretary courses and in 1931 year found a job in this specialty. December 1926 year she had a son, Lars. Since there was not enough money, Astrid had to give her beloved son to Denmark, to the family of adoptive parents. IN 1928 year she got a job as a secretary at the Royal Auto Club, where she met Sture Lindgren (1898-1952). They got married in April 1931 yearand after that Astrid was able to take Lars home.

Years of creativity

After marriage, Astrid Lindgren decided to become a housewife in order to fully devote herself to caring for Lars, and then of the one born in 1934 year daughter Karin. IN 1941 year The Lindgrens moved into an apartment overlooking the Stockholm Wasa Park, where the writer lived until her death. Occasionally taking up secretarial work, she wrote travel descriptions and rather banal fairy tales for family magazines and Christmas calendars, which gradually honed her literary skills.

According to Astrid Lindgren, " Pippi Longstocking" (1945 ) was born primarily thanks to her daughter Karin. In 1941, Karin fell ill with pneumonia, and every night Astrid told her all sorts of stories before bed. Once a girl ordered a story about Pippi Longstocking - She invented this name right there, on the go. So Astrid Lindgren began to write a story about a girl who does not submit to any conditions. Since Astrid then advocated a new and controversial idea for that time education with considering child psychology, the challenge to convention seemed to her an amusing thought experiment. If we consider the image of Pippi in a generalized way, then it is based on the 1930 --40s years of innovative ideas in the field of child education and child psychology. Lindgren followed and participated in the controversy unfolding in society, advocating for an education that would take into account the thoughts and feelings of children and thus show respect for them. A new approach to children has affected her creative manner, as a result of which she became an author consistently speaking from a child's point of view.

After the first story about Pippi, which Karin fell in love with, Astrid Lindgren over the next years told more and more evening tales about this red-haired girl. On Karin's tenth birthday, Astrid Lindgren made a shorthand record of several stories, from which she then made a self-made book for her daughter (with illustrations by the author). This original Pippi manuscript was less elaborate stylistically and more radical in its ideas. The writer sent one copy of the manuscript to the largest Stockholm publishing house Bonnier. After some deliberation, the manuscript was rejected. Astrid Lindgren was not discouraged by the refusal, she already understood that composing for children is her vocation. IN 1944 year she took part in the competition for the best book for girls, announced by the relatively new and little-known publishing house Raben and Sjögren. Lindgren won second prize for Britt-Marie Pours Out Her Soul (1944) and her publishing contract. astrid lindgren children's writer

IN 1945 year Astrid Lindgren was offered the position of children's literature editor at Raben & Sjögren. She accepted this offer and worked in one place until 1970 yearwhen she officially retired. All her books were published in the same publishing house. Despite being extremely busy and combining editorial work with household duties and writing, Astrid turned out to be a prolific writer: if you count picture books, she produced a total of about eighty works from her pen. The work was especially productive in 40s and 50's years. Totally agree 1944 --1950s Astrid Lindgren has written a trilogy about Pippi Longstocking, two stories about children from Bullerby, three books for girls, a detective story, two collections of fairy tales, a collection of songs, four plays and two picture books. As you can see from this list, Astrid Lindgren was an unusually versatile writer, willing to experiment in a wide variety of genres.

IN 1946 year she published the first story about the detective Kalle Blumkvist ("Kalle Blumkvist plays"), thanks to which she won the first prize in a literary competition (Astrid Lindgren did not participate in the competitions anymore). IN 1951 year followed by a sequel, "Kalle Blumkvist at risk" (in Russian, both stories were published in 1959 year entitled "The Adventures of Kalle Blumkvist"), and in 1953 year - the final part of the trilogy, "Kalle Blumkvist and Rasmus" (was translated into Russian in 1986 ). "Kalle Blumkvistom" the writer wanted to replace the readers glorifying violence with cheap thrillers.

IN 1954 year Astrid Lindgren wrote the first of her three fairy tales - "Mio, my Mio!" (trans. 1965 ). This emotional, dramatic book combines the techniques of the heroic legends and magic fairy tales, and it tells the story of Boo Wilhelm Ohlsson, the unloved and neglected son of adoptive parents. Astrid Lindgren has repeatedly resorted to a fairy tale and a fairy tale, touching upon the fate of lonely and abandoned children (this was the case before "Mio, my Mio!"). To bring comfort to children, to help them overcome difficult situations - this task was not the least of the writer's work.

In the next trilogy - "Kid and Carlsonwho lives on the roof "( 1955 ; per. 1957 ), "Carlson, who lives on the roof, has arrived again" ( 1962 ; per. 1965 ) and "Carlson, who lives on the roof, is playing pranks again" ( 1968 ; per. 1973 ) - again a kind of fantasy hero is acting. This "moderately well-fed", infantile, greedy, boastful, pouty, self-pitying, egocentric, although not devoid of charm, lives on the roof of the apartment building where the Kid lives. As an imaginary friend of the Kid, he is a much less wonderful image of childhood than the unpredictable and carefree Pippi. The kid is the youngest of three children in the most ordinary Stockholm family bourgeoisand Carlson enters his life in a very specific way - through the window, and he does this every time the Kid feels superfluous, bypassed or humiliated, in other words, when the boy feels sorry for himself. In such cases, its compensatory alter ego - in all respects "the best in the world" Carlson, who makes the Kid forget about troubles.

The writer died on January 28, 2002 in Stockholm. Astrid Lindgren is one of the world's most famous children's writers. Her works are imbued with fantasy and love for children. Many of them have been translated into over 70 languages \u200b\u200band published in over 100 countries. In Sweden, she became a living legend, because she entertained, inspired and consoled more than one generation of readers, participated in political life, changed laws and significantly influenced the development of children's literature.

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I have long wanted to keep in my journal an article by Oleg Fochkin about the life of Astrid Lindgren and excerpts from her childhood memories. Supplemented with photographs.
Here, I save :)
And I advise you to read it to those who have not read it yet - it was written very interestingly and with great love!

Astrid Lindgren
(1907 - 2002)

One of the minor planets is named after Astrid Lindgren.
"Call me now" Asteroid Lindgren "- she joked upon learning about such an unusual act of confession.
The children's writer became the first woman to whom a monument was erected during her lifetime - it is located in the center of Stockholm, and Astrid was present at the opening ceremony.
The Swedes have called their compatriot "the woman of the century".
Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren is the most famous Swedish children's writer.

She has written 87 children's books and most of them have been translated into Russian. In particular, these are:
- "Pippi Longstocking"
- "The Kid and Carlson Who Lives on the Roof"
- "Emil from Lönneberg"
- "Brothers Lionheart"
- "Roni, the robber's daughter"
- "The famous detective Kalle Blumkvist"
- "We are all from Bullerby"
- "Rasmus the Tramp"
- "Lotta from Gorlastaya Street"

In 1957, Lindgren became the first children's writer to receive the Swedish State Prize for Literary Achievement. Astrid has received such a number of awards and prizes that it is simply impossible to list them all.
Among the most important:
- Prize named after Hans Christian Andersen, which is called the "minor Nobel";
- Lewis Carroll Award;
- awards from UNESCO and various governments;
- Leo Tolstoy International Gold Medal;
- Silver Bear (for the film "Ronnie, the Robber's Daughter").

Astrid Lindgren, née Ericsson, was born into a farming family on November 14, 1907 in the small town of Vimmerby in the province of Småland, in southern Sweden.

As Lindgren herself later writes in the collection of autobiographical sketches "My inventions", she grew up in the age of the horse and the convertible. The family's main means of transportation was a horse-drawn carriage, the pace of life was slower, entertainment was simpler, and the relationship with the surrounding nature was much closer than today.
And since childhood, the future great storyteller loved nature very much, having no idea how one can live without this amazing world.

Childhood passed under the banner of endless games - exciting, exciting, sometimes risky and in no way inferior to boyish fun. Astrid Lindgren kept her passion for climbing trees until her very old age. "The Law of Moses, thank God, does not forbid old women to climb trees", - she used to say, she used to be in old age, overcoming another tree.

She was the second child of Samuel August Eriksson and his wife Hannah. My father rented a farm in Nes, a pastor's estate on the very outskirts of the town. In addition to her older brother Gunnar, Astrid soon had two sisters - Stina and Ingegerd.

Astrid's parents met when her father was thirteen and her mother was twelve, and have loved each other ever since.
They felt deep affection for each other and for the children. And most importantly, they were not ashamed of these feelings, which by the standards of that time was very rare, if not even a challenge to society.
The writer fondly told about this time and special relations in the family in her only "adult" book "Samuel August from Sevedstorp and Hannah from Hult".

As a child, Astrid Lindgren was surrounded by folklore, and many jokes, fairy tales, stories that she heard from her father or from friends later formed the basis of her own works.
The love of books and reading, as she later confessed, arose in the kitchen of Christine, with whom she was friends. It was Christine who introduced Astrid to the wonderful world of fairy tales.
The girl grew up on books that were completely different from her own future works: on the sugary Elsa Beskow, on lacquered recordings of folk tales, on moralizing stories for youth.

Her own abilities became evident already in elementary school, where Astrid was called "Selma Lagerlöf of Wimmerbün", which, in her own opinion, she did not deserve.
Astrid, who read a lot from an early age, learned very easily. It was much more difficult to maintain the rules of school discipline. It was the prototype of Pippi Longstocking.

The city that is described in almost every Lindgren novel is Vimmerby, near which Astrid's home farm was located. Vimmerby turned out to be the city where Pippi went shopping, now the patrimony of the policeman Bjork, now the place where little Mio runs.

After school, at the age of 16, Astrid Lindgren began working as a journalist for the local newspaper "Wimmerby Tidningen".
Once obedient Astrid has become a real "queen of swing".

But the top of the shocking was her new haircut - she was one of the first in the district to cut her hair short, and this is at sixteen!
The shock was so great that her father categorically forbade her to show herself in front of him, and people on the street approached her and asked her to take off her hat and demonstrate her outlandish hairstyle.

At eighteen, Astrid became pregnant.
The scandal turned out to be so great that the girl had to leave her parental home and go to the capital, leaving the position of a junior reporter and her beloved family.
In 1926, Astrid had a son, Lass.
Since there was not enough money, Astrid had to give her beloved son to Denmark, to the family of adoptive parents. This she never forgave herself.

In Stockholm, Astrid studies to become a secretary, then works in a small office.
In 1931 he changed his job to the Royal Auto Club and married his boss, Sture Lindgren, who turned Astrid Ericsson into Astrid Lindgren. After that, Astrid was able to take Lars home.

After marriage, Astrid Lindgren decided to become a housewife in order to devote herself entirely to her son. The boy was proud of Astrid - she was the most bully mom in the world! One day she jumped on a tram at full speed and was fined by a conductor.

Daughter Karin was born to the Lindgrens in 1934 when Lass was seven years old.

In 1941, the Lindgrens moved into an apartment overlooking Stockholm's Vasa Park, where the writer lived until her death. The family lived in harmony until Sture's death in 1952. Astrid was then 44 years old.

The history of the twisted leg

Perhaps we would never have read the fairy tales of the Swedish writer, if not for her daughter and "His Majesty the case".
In 1941, Karin fell ill with pneumonia, and every night Astrid told her all sorts of stories before bed. Once the girl ordered a story about Pippi Longstocking - she invented this name right there, on the go. So Astrid Lindgren began to write a story about a girl who does not submit to any conditions.

Shortly before her daughter's tenth birthday, Astrid unsuccessfully twisted her leg and, lying in bed and thinking about her daughter's birthday present, the future great storyteller wrote down her first novel "Pippi Longstocking" and a written sequel about a funny red-haired girl.
The handwritten book with illustrations by the author was greeted by my daughter with delight. 10-year-old daughter and friends persuaded Astrid to send the manuscript to one of the major Swedish publishing houses.
Since this all started...

The writer sent one copy of the manuscript to the largest Stockholm publishing house Bonnier. After some deliberation, the manuscript was rejected. But the writer had already decided everything for herself and in 1944 she took part in the competition for the best book for girls, announced by the relatively new and little-known publishing house "Raben & Sjotgren".
Lindgren won second prize for Britt-Marie Pouring Out Her Soul and her publishing deal.

At the same time, the writer closely followed the discussion about upbringing that was unfolding in society, advocating an upbringing that would take into account the thoughts and feelings of children and thus show respect for them.
She became an author consistently speaking from a child's perspective.
Worldwide recognition for a long time could not reconcile the author with the Swedish state commission for children's and educational literature. From the point of view of the official educators, Lindgren's tales were incorrect and not instructive enough.

And then Lindgren starts working in this publishing house as the editor of the children's literature department.
Five years later, the writer receives the Niels Holgerson Prize, then the German Prize for the Best Children's Book (Mio, My Mio).
She worked at this publishing house until her retirement, which she officially retired in 1970.
In 1946, she published the first story about the detective Kalle Blumkvist, thanks to which she won the first prize at a literary competition (Astrid Lindgren did not participate in the competitions anymore).

Carlson became kinder in the USSR

The idea of \u200b\u200bCarlson, who lives on the roof, was also suggested by his daughter.
Astrid drew attention to Karin's funny story that when the girl is left alone, a small cheerful man flies into her room through the window, who hides behind a picture if adults enter.
His name was Liljem Quarsten - a magical uncle in a pointed hat who takes lonely children on incredible journeys at dusk. He came to life in the collection "Little Nils Carlson" .

And in 1955 "The Kid and Carlson Who Lives on the Roof" appeared.
Carlson is the first positive character in a children's book with a full set of negative traits. He made me believe that all our fears and problems are just "trifles, a matter of everyday life."

In March 1966, the French language teacher Lilianna Lungina - the wife of the screenwriter Semyon Lungin, the mother of filmmakers Eugene and Pavel Lungin - brought home a Swedish book by a certain Astrid Lindgren in an old string bag.

For a year she had dreamed of working as a translator, and the publishing house "Children's Literature" promised to conclude a contract with her if there was a good Swedish book ...

In 1967 the first Soviet edition of Carlson was published.
The book instantly became popular. By 1974, more than 10 million (!) Copies of the tale had been sold.
Lindgren liked to repeat in her interviews that Carlson "has something Russian". And then Lindgren came to Moscow. Lilianna Lungina recalled: "Astrid turned out to be surprisingly similar to her books - perceptive, very smart. Light and really funny. When she came to us, she pulled our six-year-old son Zhenya out of his crib and began to play with him on the carpet, and when we accompanied her to the hotel, she , getting off the trolleybus, I danced so infectiously and enthusiastically on the street that we had to answer her in kind ... "

Carlson's "personality cult" in the USSR began after the release of the animated series "The Kid and Carlson" and "Carlson Returned" filmed at the Soyuzmultfilm studio.
It could have become a trilogy (a series about Uncle Julius), if the director of the cartoon Boris Stepantsev had not been carried away by new projects.
And the leading role in the cult cartoon was played by the artist Anatoly Savchenko. It was he who created the characters who ousted the originals of Ilon Wikland from our consciousness.
Many catch phrases from m / f are missing in the book. Let's remember at least:
- "Karlsonchik dear!"
- "Fu! I served my whole neck"
- "Do I love children? How can I tell you? ... Crazy!"
- "And I'm crazy! What a shame ..."

The emphasis was shifted towards the loneliness of the Kid. And instead of the mischievous boy that Lindgren had (he throws stones and defies Miss Bock) we see a sad big-eyed melancholic.
Carlson, in Russian translation, is generally good-natured.

How a fairy tale changed power

Astrid Lindgren earned more than one million crowns selling the rights to publish her books and their adaptation, to release audio and video cassettes, CDs with recordings of her songs or literary works in her own performance.

But all these years, her lifestyle has not changed - Lindgren lived in the same modest Stockholm apartment and preferred to distribute money to others.
Only once, in 1976, when the tax collected by the state amounted to 102% (!) Of her profits, Lingren protested.

She sent an open letter to the Stockholm newspaper Expresssen, in which she told a story about a certain Pomperipossa from Monismania. In this fairy tale for adults, Astrid Lindgren took the position of a layman and tried to expose the vices of society and its pretense.
In the year of parliamentary elections, the fairy tale became a bomb for the bureaucratic apparatus of the Swedish Social Democratic Party, which had been in power for over 40 years in a row.
The Social Democrats lost the elections.
At the same time, the writer herself was a member of this party all her life.

Her letter was so well received because of the universal respect she enjoyed in Sweden. Books in her performance were listened to on the radio by Swedish children. Her voice, face and sense of humor were also known to adults, who constantly saw and heard Lindgren on radio and television, where she hosted various quizzes and talk shows.

“Not Violence,” she said at the presentation of the German Bookselling Peace Prize.
"We all know - reminded Lindgren, - that children who are beaten and abused will themselves beat and abuse their children, and therefore this vicious circle must be broken. ".

In the spring of 1985, she spoke publicly about harassment of farm animals.
Prime Minister Ingvar Karlson himself listened. When he paid a visit to Astrid Lindgren, she asked what kind of young people he had brought with him. "These are my bodyguards" - answered Carlson.
"Quite reasonable of you, - said the 78-year-old writer, - you never know what to expect from me when I'm in this mood! "

And in the newspapers there was a fairy tale about a loving cow protesting against the mistreatment of livestock. In June 1988, the Animal Welfare Act was passed, which is called the Lindgren Act.

She was always afraid not to be in time ...

Astrid Sture's husband died in 1952.
Then - mother, father, and in 1974 her brother and several old friends died.
And a son.

A voluntary retreat began.
"Life is a wonderful thing, it drags on for so long and yet is so short!" she said.
The only thing Astrid was really afraid of was not being in time.

In recent years, she rarely left home and did not communicate with journalists.
She practically lost her sight and hearing, but always tried to be aware of everything that was happening.
When Astrid turned 90, she turned to numerous fans with an appeal not to send her gifts, but to send funds to a bank account for the construction of a children's medical center in Stockholm, where the writer herself sent an impressive amount.
Now this center - the largest in Northern Europe - is rightfully called the Astrid Lindgren Center.

Her books have been translated into more than 80 languages \u200b\u200bof the world and published in more than 100 countries.
They say that if the entire circulation of Astrid Lindgren's books is put in a vertical stack, then it will be 175 times higher than the Eiffel Tower.

There is the Astrid Lindgren Fairy Tale Museum "Junibacken" in Stockholm.
Nearby there is "Astrid Lindgren Park", where you can run on the rooftops with Carlson, ride your own horse Pippi Longstocking and wander along Ugly Street.

The children's writer was posthumously nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
For the past ten years, the Swedish press has been annually calling for Astrid Lindgren's Nobel Prize.
But children's writers have never received this award. Children's literature seems to live on its own. Maybe because she faces not only literary tasks, but also pedagogical ones. And society always resists, lags behind.
The Lindgren Award was never given ...

Oleg FOCHKIN

MEMORIES ABOUT CHILDHOOD

Astrid with her older brother Gunnar

"From my childhood, I first of all remember not people, but that amazing and beautiful environment that surrounded me. With age, the sensations become less and less vivid, but then the whole world around was unimaginably saturated and full of colors. Strawberries among the rocks, carpets of blue spring flowers, meadows of primrose, blueberry thickets known only to us, a forest covered with moss, through which graceful pink flowers make their way, Nes's walks, where we knew every path and every pebble like the back of your hand, a stream with water lilies, ditches, springs and trees - all I remember this much more clearly than people. "

Nes's wonderful landscapes not only provided a unique playground for children, but also allowed them to develop a vivid imagination. Little Eriksson relentlessly came up with exciting new games with what they saw around them. The songs and prayers learned by the children were also important for these games.
Amazing magic games.

"Oh, how we knew how to play! The four of us could play tirelessly from morning to night. All our games were fun and active, and sometimes even life-threatening, which, of course, we were completely unaware of at that time. We climbed on the tallest trees and jumped between the rows of boards at the sawmill. We climbed high on the roof and balanced on it, and if only one of us stumbled, our games could stop forever. "

One of the favorite games of the little Eriksson and their guests in Näs was "Don't step on the floor." In this case, all the children had to climb the furniture in the bedroom without touching the floor at all. It is in such a game, but much later, that Pippi will offer to play Tommy and Annika at the Chicken Villa.

"From the office door, we had to climb onto the sofa, from there climb to the kitchen door, and then to the dressing table and the work table. Then we could jump to my father's bed, and from there to the upholstered ottoman, which we could move to the living room door, after why on the open fireplace again move to the door of the office. "

Another favorite game of Astrid and Gunnar was the wind-sail game.
The children had to run through all the rooms of the house, starting from different ends of it, and meet in the kitchen, where each had to poke another finger in the stomach and shout "wind-sail!"
This is what Emil and Ida play in the books about Emil from Lönnerberg.

There was an old elm in Nes, which Astrid and her brother and sisters called "the owl tree."
The inside of the tree was completely hollow, and the children loved to play in it.
One day Gunnar climbed a tree, holding a hen's egg. He put the egg in an owl's nest, and twenty-one days later found in it a newly hatched chicken, which his mother later bought from him in seventy-five oers.
Astrid tells this story to us in the book "We are all from Bullerby", where little Bosse does this trick of Gunnar.

However, at the beginning of the last century, the children of farmers had not only to rest, but also to do hard work. They planted turnips, weeded nettles from vegetable gardens and reaped crops.
Everyone was busy working on the farm: both the children of hired workers and the children of the owners.

“As was customary in those days, of course, from childhood, we were brought up with reverent fear and awe of the Lord. However, in our free time, no one followed us, no one told us what to do. And we played and played, and played ... If we had the opportunity, we could play forever! "

According to Astrid herself, she very clearly remembered the moment when her childhood came to an end, and the terrible realization came to her that the games were over forever.

“I remember that moment very well. We then loved to play with the priest’s granddaughter when she came to Nes for the holidays. And one summer, on her next visit, we were going to start our usual games and suddenly found that to play It was a very strange feeling, and we became very sad, because we did not know at all what else we could do without playing "........

Well, and a book, of course :)
A book written by The Amazing Storyteller Astrid Lindgren.

It contains nine short stories. Not related to each other.
I always loved "There are no robbers in the forest" and "Little Nils Carlson".
The translation of fairy tales in the book is familiar from childhood - L. Braude.
And in "Princess ..." and in "Beloved Sister" - E. Solovyova. I really don't remember if I read these two fairy tales as a child ...

Drawings in the book by Ekaterina Kostina. Vaschinskaya. Kostina-Vaschinskaya ... I got confused with changing her surnames :)
I love her "crackle" drawings :)
So the question of buying this book was not for me - Lindgren + Kostina \u003d I'm happy :)

Well, about the publication.
It's very good! Large format, sturdy cover, matte chalk, large bold print and excellent print quality.

I very much approve of this book and shamelessly recommend it for purchase :)

Astrid Lindgren
"Little Nils Carlson"

Publisher - Machaon
Year - 2015
Binding - cardboard with partial varnishing
Paper - coated
Format - encyclopedic
Pages - 128
Circulation - 8,000 copies

Translated by L. Braude, E. Solovyova
Artist - Ekaterina KOSTINA

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Astrid Lindgren 1907-2002

Astrid Lindgren was born on November 14, 1907 in southern Sweden, in the small town of Vimmerby, into a farming family. The writer herself has always called her childhood happy and pointed out that it is this that serves as a source of inspiration for her work. The writer spoke about her family with great sympathy and tenderness in her only book not addressed to children - "Samuel August from Sevedstorp and Khan from Hult"

At 17, Astrid took up journalism, worked for a local newspaper. Then she moved to Stockholm, was educated as a stenographer and worked as a secretary in various metropolitan firms. In 1931, Astrid Ericsson married and became Astrid Lindgren.

Astrid Lindgren jokingly recalled that one of the reasons that prompted her to write were the cold Stockholm winters, the illness of Karin's daughter, who kept asking her mother to tell her something. It was then that mother and daughter came up with a mischievous girl with red pigtails. "Peppy" was awarded several prizes, and the author was invited to work in a children's book publishing house.

Then there were the stories about Malysh and Karlson (1955-1968), Rasmus the tramp (1956), the trilogy about Emil from Lenneberg (1963-1970), the books "The Brothers Lionheart" (1979), "Ronya, the robber's daughter" (1981) Lindgren devoted almost all of her books to children (only a few to youth).

Lindgren's heroes are distinguished by spontaneity, inquisitiveness, inventiveness, mischief combined with kindness and seriousness. Lindgren not only wrote books, but also actively fought for children's rights. She believed that they should be raised without corporal punishment and violence. In 1958, Astrid Lindgren was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen International Gold Medal for the humanistic nature of her work.

The town of Vimmerby became the place for the announcement of the winners of the annual international award in memory of Astrid Lindgren "For works for children and youth." The decision was made by the Swedish government after the death of Astrid Lindgren. Swedish writer.

Astrid Lindgren Museum in Stockholm

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Topic: "Science fiction in fairy tales by Astrid Lindgren

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1. Formation of creative views Astrid Lindgren
2. Specificity of Lindgren's fabulous skill
3. The main characters of the fairy tales of Astrid Lindgren
List of used literature

1. Formation of creative views Astrid Lindgren

Astrid Lindgren (November 14, 1907 - January 28, 2002, Stockholm), Swedish writer. Stories for children "Pippi - Long Stocking" (1945-52), about Little Boy and Carlson (1955-68), "Rasmus the Tramp" (1956), about Emil from Lenneberg (1963-1970), "Brothers Lionheart" (1979), "Ronya, the robber's daughter" (1981) are imbued with humanism. The fantastic adventures of its characters, distinguished by their spontaneity, inquisitiveness and mischief, take place in the real world with its sharp contradictions.

Lindgren was born into a family of farmers "in an old red house at the bottom of an apple orchard." Even at school she was predicted the future of the writer, calling her "The Seventh Lagerlef with Vimmerby"; she promised herself not to write, just not to be like someone else. In 1941, her daughter fell ill, and when her mother had used up the entire store of stories, she asked, giving an unexpectedly strange name: "Tell me about Pippi Long Stocking." The unusual name made me come up with the most unusual heroine. But Lindgren was in no hurry to publish the story.

In 1944, she fell ill herself and processed her oral stories, giving one copy to her daughter, and sending the second to the publishing house. As Lindgren had hoped, the publishing house, shocked by the extraordinary character and abilities of the heroine, who can raise a horse with one hand and eat a whole cake at once, and, in addition, laughs at benefactors and generally behaves amazingly, rejected the manuscript. But in 1945, Lindgren won an award for the book Britt-Marie's Heart Clasped, then the following year, the revised version of Peppy was removed. The Adventures of the Famous Investigator Kalle Blumkvist (1946) was the next book to receive an award again.

Lindgren became a professional writer. She believed that childhood gave her the material that later entered her works. Tramps, who repeatedly asked to sleep with her parents, made her think in childhood that not all people have their own roof, their stories expanded her worldview, taught to see that the world is inhabited not only by good people. The theme of the struggle between good and evil, one of the leading in her works, was born even then. The writer believed that “you cannot sit and invent some stories. You need to immerse yourself in your own childhood. " Only then can you write something that awakens the child's fantasy. And this she considered the most important task of literature, only inherent in it, because neither cinema nor television leaves room for imagination.

Imagination, Lindgren quite rightly believed, is the most important ability of humanity, "after all, everything great that ever appeared in this world was born first in the human imagination." In addition, a book for children should develop children's faith in the ability to create a miracle, in its very existence. But the miracle in Lindgren's works is always born out of reality itself, as in the story of Little Boy and Carlson, who lives on the roof.

Lindgren did not openly express her program, but tried to contribute to the democratization of public relations with her creativity, she wanted to see a world without war, where children would not suffer. She wrote for children, and therefore her ideas take on a form that children can understand. So, in the fairy tale story "Mio, my Mio!" the hero opposes the evil knight Kato, and the Lionheart brother fights against the tyrant Tengil. In the works of Lindgren, about medieval times, it is not only about the struggle between good and evil, as in all fairy tales of all times. In the features of the enemies of the writer's goodies and in the descriptions of the countries they rule, the features of fascism are clearly visible, and the characters themselves are similar to modern Swedes.

2. Specificity of Lindgren's fabulous skill

The specificity of Lindgren's fabulous skill lies in the fact that she created fairy tales where real modern boys and girls suddenly acquire fabulous properties, like the poor, abandoned girl Pippi, or live a double life in an ordinary Swedish city of the 20th century. with the phone, going to school like a Kid; with poverty and misfortune like Brother Lionheart; orphaned like Mio; at the same time they have a second world - fabulous, fantastic.

Here they are either powerful and heroically themselves (Mio, Brother Lionheart), or they have supernatural helpers and friends, like the Kid, whose friend Carlson becomes. The fabulous heroes of the past flew on airplane carpets, in flying chests, etc. Children of the XX century, familiar with the flying machines of our time, guess motors, propellers, control buttons. Lindgren's fiction itself is a world created by the imagination of a contemporary child. Carlson's ideas, for example, are pranks that are possible for an ordinary child with a developed imagination. Lindgren never moralizes. She makes her little readers see the bad in the examples available to them. The writer's gentle humor creates a special kind atmosphere, where there is no opportunity for the triumph of the evil principle.

However, Lindgren did not abandon trolls, elves, brownies or spiritualizations of the forces of nature, mountains or objects, but this traditionally fantastic is combined with a change in reality with children's fantasy. In her tales, Lindgren followed G.K. Andersen, who knew how to tell amazing stories about ordinary objects, for S. Lagerlef, who combined in one work a textbook about the nature of Sweden, the real life of a little boy Niels and the history of a goose flock. However, it does not repeat its predecessors. Lindgren, introducing the reader into the circle of the child's fantasies and emotions, teaches adults to respect his inner world, to see him as a person.

3. The main characters of the fairy tales of Astrid Lindgren

The largest works of Lindgren are fairy tales: "Pippi Longstocking" ("Boken om Pippi Langs-trump", 1945-1946), "Mio, my Mio" (1954), "The Kid and Carlson Who Lives on the Daxy" (" Lillebror och Karlsson pa Taket ", 1955 - 1968)," The Brothers Lionheart "(" Brodema Lejon-hjarta ", 1973), as well as the novel for children and young people" The Adventures of the famous investigator Kalle Blumkvist "(" Masterdetektiven Blomqvist lever farligt " 1946-1953), "Rasmus the vagabond" ("Rasmus pa Luffen", 1956) and the trilogy about Emil from Lenneberg ("Emil in Lonneberga", 1963-1970). Lindgren did not openly express her program, but wanted to contribute to the democratization of public relations with her creativity, she wanted to see a world without war, where children would suffer. She wrote for children, and therefore his ideas take on a form that children can understand. Thus, in the fairy tale-story “Mio, my Mio!” The hero opposes the evil knight Kato, and the Lionheart brothers fight against the tyrant Tengil. in all fairy tales of all times.In the features of the opponents of the writer's good characters and in the descriptions of the countries they rule, the features of fascism clearly show through, and the characters themselves are similar to modern Swedes.

The specificity of Lindgren's fabulous skill is that she created fairy tales, fairy tales, where real modern boys and girls suddenly acquire fabulous properties, like the poor, abandoned girl Pippi, or live a double life in an ordinary Swedish city of the 20th century. with the phone, going to school like the Kid, with poverty and hardship like the Lionheart brothers; orphaned like Mio; time they have another world - fabulous, fantastic. Here they are either powerful and heroic themselves (Mio, take the Lionheart), or they can have helpers and friends endowed with supernatural powers, like the Kid, whose friend Carlson becomes. The fabulous heroes of the past flew on airplane carpets, near flying chests, etc. Children of the 20th century, They are familiar with the aircraft of our time, invent engines, propellers, control buttons. Lindgren's fiction itself is a world created by the imagination of a contemporary child. Carlson's tricks, for example, are pampering, which an ordinary child with a developed imagination can do. Lindgren never moralizes. She makes her little readers see the bad in the examples available to them. The writer's mild humor creates a special kind atmosphere, where there is no opportunity for the triumph of the evil of the beginning.

The inevitability of the final victory of good is also inherent in Lindgren's stories for youth, and their heroes are the same dreamers, like the heroes of fairy tales. Kalle Blumkvist imagines himself a famous investigator, plays with his friends in the war of the Scarlet and White Rose. Rasmus the vagabond idealizes the life of the homeless beggar. Lindgren also educates his readers in stories about real events: the war of the Scarlet and White Roses is waged between friends according to the rules of highly interpreted chivalry, it is full of inexhaustible inventiveness of adolescents, destroys the state of obstacles; Rasmus understands the true nature of vagabonds. However, Lindgren did not abandon trolls, elves, brownies or the spiritualization of the forces of nature, mountains or objects, but this traditionally fantastic is combined in her with a change in reality with a child's fantasy. In her tales, Lindgren followed G.K. Andersen, who knew how to tell amazing stories about nayprosy objects, for S. Lagerlef, who combined in one work a textbook on the nature of Sweden, the real life of a little boy Niels and the story of a goose flock. However, it does not repeat its predecessors. Lindgren, introducing the reader into the circle of the child's fantasies and emotions, teaches adults to respect his inner world, to see him as a person.

Pippi Longstocking is the central character in a series of books by Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren.

Peppy is a little red-haired freckled girl who lives alone in the "Chicken" villa in a small Swedish town with her animals: the monkey Mr. Nilson and the horse. Peppy is the daughter of Captain Ephraim Longstocking, who later became the leader of the black tribe. From her father, Pippi inherited fantastic physical strength, as well as a suitcase of gold, which allows her to exist comfortably. Peppy's mother died when she was still a baby. Pippi is sure that she has become an angel and is looking at her from heaven ("My mother is an angel, and my father is a Negro king. Not every child has such noble parents").

Pippi "adopts", but rather, comes up with various customs from different countries and parts of the world: when walking backward, walk the streets upside down, "because your legs are hot when you walk on a volcano, and you can put on your hands in mittens."

Peppy's best friends are Tommy and Annika Söttergren, children of ordinary Swedish people. In Peppy's company, they often get into trouble and funny alterations, and sometimes - real adventures. Attempts by friends or adults to influence disorderly Pippi do not lead to anything: she does not go to school, is illiterate, familiar, and always composes fables. However, Pippi has a good heart and a good sense of humor.

Pippi Longstocking is one of Astrid Lindgren's most fantastic heroines. She is independent and does whatever she wants. For example, she sleeps with her feet on the pillow and with her head under the covers, wears colorful stockings when she returns home, backs away because she doesn't want to turn around, rolls the dough right on the floor and keeps the horse on the veranda.

She is incredibly strong and agile, even though she is only nine years old. She carries her own horse in her arms, defeats the famous circus strongman, scatters a whole company of hooligans aside, breaks off the horns of a ferocious bull, deftly exposes two police officers from her own house who came to her to forcibly take her to the orphanage, and instantly throws two onto the closet smashed the thieves who decided to rob her. However, there is no cruelty in Pippi's reprisals. She is extremely generous to her defeated enemies. She treats the disgraced police with freshly baked gingerbread in the shape of hearts. And embarrassed thieves who have worked out their intrusion into someone else's house by dancing with Pippi Twist all night, she generously rewards gold coins, this time honestly earned.

Peppy is not only extremely strong, she is also incredibly rich. It costs her nothing to buy for all the children in the city "a hundred kilos of candy" and a whole toy store, but she herself lives in an old dilapidated house, wears a single dress made of colorful rags, and the only pair of shoes her father bought her "for growth." ...

But the most amazing thing about Pippi is her vivid and violent fantasy, which manifests itself in the games that she comes up with, and in amazing stories about different countries where she visited with her dad-captain, and in endless practical jokes, the victims of which become idiots -adults. Pippi takes any of his stories to the point of absurdity: a mischievous servant bites guests by the legs, a long-eared Chinese man hides under his ears in the rain, and a capricious child refuses to eat from May to October. Peppy gets very upset if someone says that she is lying, because lying is not good, she just sometimes forgets about it.

Pippi is a child's dream of strength and nobility, wealth and generosity, freedom and selflessness. But for some reason the adults Pippi do not understand. And the pharmacist, and the school teacher, and the director of the circus, and even the mother of Tommy and Annika are angry at her, teach, educate. Apparently, therefore, more than anything, Pippi does not want to grow up:

“Adults never have fun. They always have a lot of boring jobs, stupid dresses and cumin taxes. And they are also crammed with prejudice and all sorts of nonsense. They think it’s a terrible misfortune if you put a knife in your mouth while eating, and so on. ”

But "who said that you need to become an adult?" No one can force Peppy to do what she doesn't want!

The books about Pippi Longstocking are full of optimism and an unchanging belief in the very best.

And the last thing that needs to be said: about the influence of Astrid Lindgren on Russian children's literature. It should be admitted that the very existence of the Swedish writer’s wonderful books raised the bar for quality in children's literature, changed the attitude towards children's books as second-class literature, the creation of which does not require excessive efforts from the writer, if only it was smooth and funny (and edifying). Of course, Astrid Lindgren was not alone in this struggle for a good children's book, but her authority and personal example did a lot to strengthen the high demands on literature for children.

Astrid Lindgren left an amazing legacy - a talented and varied contemporary children's literature, which - and this is no exaggeration - came out of her books. Thank her for this wonderful magical gift to all of us.

Astrid Lindgren's books are also good because you want to return to them, you want to re-read them not only in childhood, but in adulthood. These are fairy tales and at the same time they are stories about children, those who live in the neighboring yard. There is nothing fantastic in them, they just know how to dream, fantasize, see inaccessible to adults.

List of used literature

1. Astrid Lindgren. Pippi Longstocking / translated by N. Belyakova, L. Braude and E. Paklina. - SPb: Azbuka, 1997

2. Braude L. Astrid Lindgren for children and youth // Children's literature, 1969. Moscow, 1969. P. 108.

3. Lindgren A. Pippi Longstocking. - Petrozavodsk: Karelia, 1993.

4. Uvarova I. What's new in the theater for children // Theater. 1968. No. 8, p. 23.

The life and work of Astrid Lindgren

Once on a wonderful May day, little Astrid was playing with her sister Stina. The air trembled from the heat, a stream murmured, bird cherry blossoms, and everything around seemed so extraordinary to the girls. Even an ordinary earthworm. Astrid and Stina thought that he might very well be an enchanted prince and tried to disenchant him. A kiss, of course! But either the prince was too bewitched, or the girls were not real princesses, the experiment failed. But many years later, Astrid Lindgren described this incident in the book "Fun in Bullerby". Girlfriends Lisa and Anna are playing in the thickets of bird cherry.

"At the same moment I saw a frog and said:
“Ah, my little enchanted frog!
And quickly grabbed her. After all, everyone knows that most frogs are enchanted princes.<...>
- Okay! - I said. “If so, you have to kiss him to break the spell.
- Fu, disgusting, - Anna grimaced.
But I said that if in the old days all the princesses were the same fools as she, then now there would be enchanted princes in our ditches. "

Astrid Lindgren always remembered her childhood as a very happy time filled with games and fun. She was born in 1907 in the Näs estate in the small Swedish town of Vimmerby. And her name was then Astrid Eriksson. The family lived in a small red house, like many in Sweden, among a beautiful apple orchard. Her parents did not own the estate, they only rented it, but thanks to hard work, their economy flourished. Although there were workers in the house, Mom Hannah and Dad Samuel August worked from morning until late at night. Mother weaved, spun, milked cows, cooked cheese and butter, baked bread, and managed the maids and farm laborers. Dad tilled the land. The soil in Småland (this is the name of the province where Vimmerby is located) is barren, rocky, and before plowing a field, peasants had to remove many stones from it. Samuel August even received a diploma "for the conscientious work of clearing arable land from stones and boulders." He also raised pedigree livestock and received awards for his stallions and bulls.

Children were also taught to work from childhood. There were four of them in the family: Gunnar, Astrid, who was born a year after him, Stina, who was four years younger than Astrid, and Ingheyerd, nine years younger. From the age of six, their duties included picking nettles for chickens and thinning turnips in the field. Astrid then described these fieldwork in her stories. As they got older, they helped to clean the bread. Astrid recalled how difficult it was for her to walk across the field behind the mower and knit sheaves. But she didn’t even have a thought about taking time off from work. Ericsson's children obeyed their parents unquestioningly.
And yet the children had enough time to play. And they played avidly, voraciously, forgetting about lunch and dinner. "How did we not play until we died?" Astrid was surprised. They ran, jumped in the hayloft, swam in the lake. Yard buildings became either a haven for pirates or a den of robbers. The main playmate for Astrid was the brother Gunnar, the closest in age. But they also played with the children of the farm laborers who lived in Nes, and with the pastor's grandchildren who came on vacation.
Astrid recounts her childhood in detail in the Bullerby Kids trilogy. "Oh, how we have fun!" - every now and then repeats the girl Lisa. Living in a peasant farmstead - what could be better for a child? It's amazing to bottle feed your newborn lamb! It's fun with your friends to stay up until twelve on New Year's Eve! It's great to walk home from school on a stone fence!

Perhaps you are surprised how a girl from an ordinary peasant family could become a great writer? The fact is that Samuel August and Hannah were not ordinary peasants after all. Hannah in her youth was going to become a teacher. Samuel August used to get up before dawn to read, and did not spare money for the education of his children. And when Astrid was asked where her talent came from, she replied that she grew up in the shadow of great love. Samuel August loved Hannah so much that a glimpse of his feelings was enough for all of their four children. "Every morning began with a prayer from his father - he blessed God for having sent him this miracle wife, this miracle love, this miracle feeling," the storyteller recalled.
She described her first acquaintance with books as a miracle. It happened in a small kitchenette in the house of a cattle breeder and a maid from Nes. They had a daughter, Edith, who often played with Astrid and Gunnar. And then one day Edith offered to read them a book. It was the fairy tale "The Giant Bam-Bam and the Fairy Viribunda". "I was completely overwhelmed, and an unquenchable thirst for reading awoke in me!" - said the writer. The next day, Astrid waited outside the house for Edith to read to her again. Of course, Edith did not have her own books, she borrowed them from the library. Astrid didn't have them either. When, already a schoolgirl, she received her first book "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" as a gift, she was not herself with happiness! You see, it was a great joy for a little peasant girl to have her own book.

At seven, Astrid was enrolled in the first grade of Vimmerby Elementary School. She liked to study, and even more liked it, slowly returning from school to the farm with her brother and friends. On the way, they told each other different stories, splashed in puddles and, of course, played naughty. When Astrid was ten years old, a very joyful event happened for her: she got access to the school library. And she began to read, "everything that was there": "Robinson Crusoe" by D. Defoe, "Treasure Island" by R.L. Stevenson, books by A. Dumas, M. Twain, J. Verne, "beautiful books for girls" - "Pollyanna" by E. Porter and "The Little Princess" by F. H. Burnett and many, many others. Their heroes became real girls and boys for her. Together with them, she experienced their sorrows and joys, participated in all their adventures. And, of course, together with her brother and sisters, she played Becky Thatcher, Tom Sawyer, Anna of Green Gables, Jim Hawkins and others.
After graduating from elementary school, Astrid went to a real high school, where her brother Gunnar and best friend Madiken were already studying. Astrid's favorite subject was Swedish. Her teacher more than once read Astrid's school essays in class. And one of them - "Life on our farm" - just imagine, was published in a local newspaper! After that, thirteen-year-old Astrid was jokingly called Selma Lagerlöf from Vimmerby. “But I myself decided that I would never be a writer,” Astrid Lindgren recalled. Around the same age, Astrid suddenly realized that her childhood was over. "I remember how painful it became in our souls when we realized that we no longer know how to play."
At sixteen, Astrid Eriksson graduated from high school with good grades. And after a while she got a place in the newspaper "Vimmerby Tiding", because in the town they had already heard a lot about her literary abilities. She answered calls, corrected texts and wrote short reports about everything that happened in the area: about births, weddings and funerals. She also wrote a number of articles "Going for a Walk" describing her travels to various parts of Småland. She took these walks in the company of Madiken and other friends.

Astrid Ericsson worked for the newspaper for two years. Then she was forced to leave Nes. Astrid was eighteen years old, she was expecting a child, but did not want to get married. You see, staying in Vimmerby would mean becoming a target for daily gossip for her. Astrid decided to move to Stockholm. There she rented a room in a boarding house and began taking courses in stenography and typing. And then she got a job as a secretary in the radio department of the Swedish Book Trade Center. Her salary of 150 crowns was only enough to pay for an uncomfortable room and food. And Astrid had to go out of her way to save money to save money for trips to Copenhagen, where she temporarily left her son Lars with her foster family. “All those years Lasse lived well,” the writer said. “On the contrary, I feel bad. After all, I had to live in Stockholm, complete my education, get a job, look for an opportunity to take Lasse to my place.” Perhaps Astrid Lindgren would never have become a world famous writer if not for this dramatic event. The need to live away from her son, not seeing how he grows, was a very strong experience for Astrid. And subsequently she was especially acutely worried about the troubles of other children, she wanted to help all of them - orphans, sick, lonely and simply experiencing some kind of grief, which in childhood always seems so great.

Astrid took Lasse with her three years later, when his adoptive mother in Copenhagen became seriously ill. By that time Astrid got a job as an editor at "KAK" (Royal Automobile Club) and there she met Sture Lindgren. In the spring of 1931, Sture and Astrid were married. And three years later, the youngest daughter Karin was born, and the future writer plunged headlong into the cares and joys of motherhood.

At that time in Sweden, most mothers did not work, but were engaged in housekeeping. But even “if all of them said they wanted to go to work, I would still not go to work. For me in those years it was natural to stay at home with the children,” Astrid admitted. She wanted to constantly be with the children, see how they play, what they read, how they grow up. Instead of sitting on a bench watching the children play, Astrid played herself. She found that the joy of the game returned to her. Together with Lasse, she climbed trees in Karlberg Park and rolled downhill. "I suspect she had as much fun as I did!" - recalled Lasse.

What do children love the most? Astrid Lindgren believes:
Fishing.
Jump into the hay.

Play pirates, robbers and Indians.

Arrange secret huts and headquarters.

Tell each other scary stories.

Celebrate Christmas.

Climb trees and roofs.

Sometimes Astrid told Lasse and Karin stories about her childhood, about Småland. Her grandmother Ida and father Samuel August were great storytellers, and Astrid adopted their gift. Once Karin fell ill with pneumonia, and she had to lie in bed for a long time. In the evenings, Astrid told her stories. And once Karin asked: "Tell me about Pippi Longstocking!" You probably know who this Peppy is. Astrid didn't know. She had to invent it! And because the name was so unusual, the girl was also special. Mom told Karin about the adventures of the strongest girl in the world until Karin recovered. And then for a long time - to the daughter's friends, who came to visit especially to listen to these stories.

And then something happened that Astrid Lindgren said with a laugh: "As a writer I am the product of a whim of nature." Slipping on the ice, she twisted her leg and was forced to spend two weeks in bed. And since it was not in her rules to mess around, she decided to write down stories about Pippi. She wanted to donate the manuscript to Karin for a decade. Would you like such a gift? I think Karin loved it! And Astrid sent her next story to the competition of books for girls, organized by the young publishing house "Raben and Sjogren". The jury awarded her story "Britt-Marie pours out her soul" second place. It was 1944 and Astrid was thirty-seven years old.

The following year, Astrid Lindgren submitted her Pippi Longstocking to another publishing competition. The story won first place. And when the book was published, 20,000 copies were sold in the first two weeks alone! Never before has a children's story caused so much controversy and enthusiasm. In newspapers and magazines, fierce discussions erupted about parenting. Some believed that the book was dangerous for them and would entail massive disobedience. Others, on the contrary, insisted that freedom and play are necessary for children to develop normally. Astrid herself refrained from participating in the discussions. But thanks to these controversies, the book became more and more popular. And "Raben and Sjogren" began to publish all her books.
Astrid Lindgren published an average of two to three books a year! Maybe you think it's not too much? But for twenty-five years she, moreover, headed the department of children's books of the publishing house "Raben and Sjogren". And she also created many plays and scripts! How did she do it?

Astrid Lindgren used to write her books early in the morning - while still in bed! She woke up at five in the morning and could devote three hours to creativity, and at eight she was already starting to sort mail. In the afternoon, Astrid worked at a publishing house. Sitting in bed in the early hours of the morning, Astrid transcribed her inventions, then typed, revised, and retyped cleanly. Interestingly, when she was shorthand, she used her own cipher, which until now no one can read!

Correspondence took a lot of time. Astrid received letters from children around the world and tried to answer each of them. But there were also business papers. On average, she received 150 letters a week. Fresh letters lay in huge bags, which gradually became a familiar piece of furniture in the writer's apartment. In the end, she even had to hire a secretary to handle correspondence. They say that when Astrid met Tove Jansson, they talked the evening through. The most burning topic of conversation was how "to be able to answer all the letters of readers without going crazy?" Both writers believed that children should be taken seriously, that their expectations should not be deceived.

Imagine, almost all of Astrid Lindgren's works have been filmed. And she always participated in the choice of actors, came to the set and, of course, wrote scripts for all films. And she herself came up with songs that sound from the screens. These songs are very popular in Sweden, both children and adults know them by heart! For example, this one:

"Carlson, Carlson, the best Carlson in the world! Carlson, Carlson! Carlson has arrived!"

By the time Astrid became the grandmother of her own six grandchildren, she was already called the grandmother of all the children of the planet. And she was an amazingly gentle, wise and sympathetic grandmother. Astrid's opinion was so weighty for the Swedes that in her seventy years she suddenly found herself at the center of the country's political life. She criticized Sweden's tax system, opposed the use of nuclear power and raised the issue of animal cruelty in agriculture. Not all of her dreams became reality, but each of her undertakings raised a storm in public life. For example, Sweden was the first in the world to introduce a law abolishing corporal punishment of children thanks to Astrid's “No-violence!” Speech.

All of Astrid Lindgren's work is imbued with the same idea - to give children a safe world in which they can grow up peacefully. Astrid probably understood children so well because she remembered her own childhood very well. Astrid knew what the children of the whole earth needed - unconditional love, security, the joy of communicating with parents, brothers and sisters. And in her books, she described parents who give children all this. Mothers in her books bake buns and make cocoa in the morning. And if there are fights, they always find the right words. Like the mother of five-year-old Lotta from the book "Lotta from Buzoter Street". When Lotta confesses that she cut her jumper with scissors and wants, but cannot, ask for forgiveness, her mother asks her:

"- And if I also ask for forgiveness? If I say this: forgive me, dear Lotta, for all those cases when I did something stupid to you.
- Well, then I can say sorry! - Lotta responded eagerly. "

Favorite characters

Pippi Longstocking

Maybe you will be interested to know that there are as many as two Peppies. The one that is known and loved all over the world is the second. You probably think that this Peppy is the most mischievous and lively girl in the world! But no! First, Astrid Lindgren came up with an even more hooligan image. But in her first story (the one that she gave to her daughter Karin) there was so much absurdity, and Pippi behaved so defiantly that Astrid rewrote the story for the competition, softening or removing some points. By the way, recently the first version of the book - "Pra-Peppi" was published in Sweden.
For the Swedes, the image of Pippi is forever associated with the image of the actress Inger Nilsson. She starred in the television series about Pippi directed by Ulla Helbum. Inger Nilsson filled Pippi's character with such kindness, sympathy and love that you no doubt forgive the red-haired rebel for all her mischief.

Carlson who lives on the roof

Astrid's daughter Karin came up with not only Pippi Longstocking. Once she asked her mother to come up with a fairy tale about the Lord's Party, who comes to visit the children when there are no adults nearby. Astrid composed a fairy tale "In the Twilight Land" about a kind little man who flew to sick children to comfort them. A few years later, Mr. Vecherin returned, but in such a way that he had to find a new name. He became so "intolerable, headstrong that he could hardly be tolerated! He himself considered himself, without a doubt, a pretty, thoroughly clever and moderately plump man in his prime," wrote Astrid Lindgren. And she named it Carlson-on-the-roof (almost exactly as the shoemaker from Vimmerby was once called Carlson-on-the-barrel).
Thanks to the translation of Lilianna Lungina, Soviet children fell in love with Carlson more than any other characters of Astrid Lindgren. It was the translator who filled the text of the story with phrases that you have heard many times: "Calm, only calm" and "Trifles, everyday business." Then "Soyuzmultfilm" released two cartoons about Malysh and Karlson, which your grandparents watched, and then mom and dad. Since then, Carlson, with all his whims, grievances and pranks, seems to us sweet and dear. Perhaps the children adore him because, despite his bad character, the Kid still loves him.

Madiken of Junibacken

This name was invented by Anne-Marie Ingstrom, Astrid's best friend. Together they climbed trees and roofs, Madiken taught Astrid how to fight. And then the writer borrowed some of her friend's features and their childhood games for books.
The fictional Madiken lives with dad, mom and sister Lisabeth in the Junibaken estate (literally June-Gorka). Madiken "is so quick for inventions that the piglet does not have time to blink an eye, she has it already - made up!" How do you like this, for example? Madiken takes Dad's umbrella and jumps off the roof with it. But not just like that, but imagining himself as a soldier leaving the plane! Or, having come home from school in one halo, he blames his classmate Ricard, like many other pranks, by the way. True, it soon turns out that there has never been a tomboy with that name in her class. But in general Madiken is a kind and sensitive girl. It is she who saves a classmate, "lousy" Mia, from cruel punishment, who stole a wallet from the teacher and bought sweets for herself and other children.
By the way, the Museum of Fairy Tales in Stockholm is called Junibacken, and its symbol is a girl with a large black umbrella.

Emil from Lönneberg

"Do you know what Emil once threw out of Lönneberg?" Astrid Lindgren's three-year-old grandson never stopped screaming, but when he heard his grandmother's question, he immediately fell silent. Of course, who doesn't want to know what Emil has done. And Astrid began to tell ... Emil was her favorite character. According to the writer, he was more like her than anyone else. And when talking about the antics of the mischievous person, Astrid turned to her father's memories of Småland in the early 20th century. And some of the leprosy described by her also actually happened: Samuel Augustus heard about them in his own childhood.
Oh, this Emil! He looks - blue-eyed and in a cap on linen swirls - like an angel, but you will not find another such mischief in all of Småland. Either he will raise his sister Ida to the flagpole instead of the flag, then he will get stuck with his head in a porcelain tureen. But this is not out of malice! Emil has a kind heart and a gentle character. To his credit, it must be said that he always thinks of others. I even put a mousetrap under my father’s chair so that the hungry rat wouldn’t bite off my father’s finger.

Brothers Lionheart

In 1973, Astrid Lindgren wrote a book that caused the same storm of emotions and controversy as Pippi Longstocking. It was a fairy tale "The Lionheart Brothers", and it spoke of love and death. Astrid believed that these are the topics that most excite people around the world, including children. And one should not be silent about death just because it is difficult or not customary to talk about it. Imagine, after the publication of the book, Astrid received many letters from terminally ill children. For them, reading the story became a great support.
Almost all the action of the story takes place in Nangiyala, a country where, after death, a little sick Suharik and his older brother Yunathan end up. Junathan would still live and live, but he died during a fire, saving his brother. And in Nangyal, his courage and kind heart come in handy. After all, the Valley of Thorns was captured by the evil and cruel Tengil, who, with the help of the dragon Katla, keeps its civilians in obedience. And only Yunatan can defeat Tengil and Katla. And what about Rusk? The coward, who was afraid to take a step without his brother, becomes a real Lion's Heart, and without his help, Yunathan could not cope!
Astrid Lindgren said that for the first time she saw the Lionheart Brothers at a screen test, where they chose a boy for the role of Emil from Lönneberg. She noticed how little Janne Ohlsson, who was terribly shaken by the filmmakers, climbed onto his older brother's lap, and he kissed him on the cheek. This is how the heroes of the tale of brotherly love appeared.

The Wizarding World Astrid Lingren

The old manor Nes, where the writer spent her childhood, now houses a research center and a museum. And nearby, in Astrid Lindgren's World Park, you can meet Pippi Longstocking, Emil from Lönneberg, Madiken, Ronyu and many other Astrid characters! In the very environment that you imagined many times when you read her books.
But it all started with a small square created by caring parents for their children. In 1981, the first building appeared - the Katthult farm, where Emil lives, and then entrepreneurs and the Vimmerby commune took up the idea, and gradually the little entertainment turned into a huge fairy-tale park, which annually receives more than 400,000 guests from all over the world. Have you been to Astrid Lindgren's World yet? No problem! Let me tell you what you can see here.
Here is Buzoterov street, with a yellow house where Lotte's family lives, here is a street with tiny houses, one of which belongs to Boyka Kaisa's grandmother. Here is a Small-Small Town - an exact copy of the center of Vimmerby with a square and a fountain, and alleys along which the famous detective Kalle Blumkvist sneaked along with his gang, and a small pastry shop where Pippi bought 18 kilograms of caramels. I almost forgot, you can go into small houses, they will fit you just in size. Not baby Niels Carlson's house! In it you will feel the same kid as this brownie, because the furniture in his house is so huge that not every child can climb onto a chair!
And who is sitting on the bridge in an old raincoat and with a fishing rod? Yes, this is the Lionheart Rusk! It means that his brother Yunathan is somewhere nearby, because we are already in the Cherry Valley. Just be careful, the Valley of Thorns is teeming with the terrible soldiers of Tengil! And here is the robber's castle, split in two by lightning on the night that Ronya was born. Here is Mattis, and Borka, and their bandit gangs, warring so many generations. Will Ronye and Birku be able to reconcile their fathers? But now the bright yellow, slightly rickety villa of Villekula appeared with a lemonade tree and Peppy's horse in the yard. On the ceiling there are pancakes and traces of Mr. Nilsson's paws. But Peppy herself is not visible. Of course, she's on the ship! Together with Tommy, Annika and her dad she swims on the lake and sings at the top of her lungs! And here is the neat, tidy Junibacken estate. The adorable girls Madiken and Lisabeth live here. Of course, like all Astrid Lindgren's heroes, they sometimes play pranks too. And if you're lucky, you'll see Madiken jumping off the roof with Dad's black umbrella.