Astrid Lindgren is without doubt the most famous and influential Swedish children's author in the world. A rare combination of great popular appeal and high literary quality have led her fellow countr...
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Stockholm (dpa) - A not-for-profit Venezuelan institution, Banco
del Libro, was Wednesday awarded the 2007 Astrid Lindgren Memorial
Award for "promoting reading among childr...
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Hamburg (dpa) - Sweden is preparing a host of special events this
year to commemorate children's author Astrid Lindgren, who would have
turned 100 this year, as well as the ...
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Banco del Libro, a nonprofit Venezuelan network that has been distributing books to children for nearly half a century, is the 2007 winner of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award for Literature.The a...
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Copenhagen (dpa) - Copenhagen police Monday evicted some 90 youths
who over the weekend occupied an empty building in the Danish
capital.
Police escorted 94 y...
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Stockholm (dpa) - Sweden's small but vocal Republican Association
proposed Monday that King Carl XVI Gustaf should no longer feature on
the Swedish 1-krona coin.
...
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Jan 21 (Reuters) - Following are some of the major
events to have occurred on January 28 since 1900: 1935 - Iceland became the first country to legalise abortion
on medical-social grounds. 1939 - ...
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Today is Sunday, Jan. 28, the 28th day of 2007. There are 337 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Jan. 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff fro...
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Astrid (Ericsson) Lindgren
Venezuelan "book bank" accepts Astrid Lindgren literature award
