Celebrating 75 years of everyone's favourite quirky heroine!
Astrid Lindgren was born in 1907, and grew up at a farm called Näs
in the south of Sweden. She began her writing career in 1944 after
she won a children's book competition, with Pippi Longstocking
published a year later.
She published more than one hundred books in her lifetime and is
still the most popular children's author in Sweden. Her books have
been translated into more than sixty languages, and she received
numerous honours and awards.
Astrid Lindgren died in 2002. Mini Grey was given her name after
being born in a Mini in a car park in Newport, Wales. She studied
for an MA in Sequential Illustration at Brighton under the tutelage
of John Vernon Lord. Mini also worked as a primary school teacher
in Oxford, where she now lives. She is the winner of the CILIP Kate
Greenaway Medal and the Nestlé Children's Book Prize Gold Award.
'If Pippi met Voldemort she'd make mincemeat out of him and then,
because she's a generous, forgiving soul, sit him down and feed him
ginger snaps.'
'Pippi Longstocking was my girl. I loved her strength - not just
her physical power, but the idea that she wouldn't allow her voice
to be diminished by anyone.'
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