Lindgren has also been recognized for her moral authority and her humanitarian efforts. Both in her life and in her fiction she has consistently sided with the powerless and abused--children, adults, animals, or even trees. Her accomplishments in the humanitarian field were recognized when she received the German Booksellers' Peace Award in 1978 and the Albert Schweitzer Medal from the U.S. Animal Welfare Institute in 1989.
Astrid Anna Emilia Ericsson was born on 14 November 1907 in the small town of Vimmerby, in Småland, a province in southern Sweden. She was the second child of Samuel August Ericsson and his wife, Hanna Ericsson (née Jonsson). Her father was a tenant farmer at Näs, the vicarage situated at the edge of town. The couple had four children: Gunnar, a son and the oldest child, and three daughters--Astrid, Stina, and Ingegerd. According to all accounts by the author, her childhood was a happy one, filled with play and adventure that was interspersed with work on and around the farm. Once, in answer to the question of why her childhood was exceedingly happy, Lindgren responded that she and her siblings at Näs experienced the right combination of freedom and security during their early years.
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