The Independent - London, January 29th, 2002
ASTRID LINDGREN was Sweden's best-known contemporary writer and a key figure in the transformation of 20th-century children's literature. Having won second prize in a 1944 book competition whose stated aim was to promote "love of the home and of the family, as well as sobriety and responsibility in relation to the opposite sex", Lindgren went on the next year, almost as if in reaction, to create her famously contradictory heroine Pippi Longstocking.
Standing for values that were entirely opposite to those embraced by the competition, Pippi Longstocking quickly became one of the most loved and...
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