Astrid Lindgren (née Ericsson) was a Swedish writer and author of books for children.
She was born on November 14, 1907, on the Näs farmstead, near Vimmerby, Sweden.
In childhood Astrid Lindgren was surrounded by folklore, and many of the jokes, fairy tales, and stories she heard from her father or friends later became the basis of her own works. Her love of books and reading, as she later admitted, began in Kristine’s kitchen, where she used to visit. It was Kristine who introduced Astrid to the wonderful, exciting world one could enter by reading fairy tales.…
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