The Brothers Lionheart by Astrid Lindgren

Not that I am against new departures, but the content of “The Brothers Lionheart,” a fantasy about life after death, seems to me dubious.īy Astrid Lindgren. Her books have been translated into more than sixty languages. She died in 2002, aged 94.Alas, let no one encountering this new book by the creator of Pippi Longstocking expect more of the same. She also received numerous other honours and awards including the International Book Award.Īstrid published more than one hundred books in her lifetime and is still the most popular children's author in Sweden. Her second book, Pippi Longstocking, which she wrote as a present for her daughter's tenth birthday, was published in 1945. She received the Raben & Sjogren's Best Children's Book prize for Pippi and became a book editor for that publisher for many years.

Astrid wrote her first story, Britt-Mari Opens Her Heart, in 1944. One of them tried to land on the roof of her house, or that is the way it looked at the time.Īfter attending public school, she moved to Stockholm and married Sture Lindgren. One of her strongest recollections as a child was meeting two pilots, Captains Sonders and Madicken.

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The Brothers Lionheart by Astrid Lindgren