![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1958, she won the Hans Christian Andersen Medal, the highest international award in childrens literature. Lindgren had a long, prolific career, writing more than 100 picture books, poems, short stories, plays, screenplays, and novels. It was followed by two sequels, Pippi Goes on Board and Pippi in the South Seas. Astrid Lindgren is best-known for her childrens book about the independent, strong, redheaded Pippi Longstocking. Her most famous and beloved book, Pippi Longstocking, was originally published in Swedish in 1950 and was later translated into many other languages. After college, she worked in a newspaper office and a Swedish publishing house. The New York Times About the Author Astrid Lindgren (1907-2002) was born in Sweden. But will Pippi and her friends really want to live on the island forever, never to return to Villa Villekulla? Any reappearance of the irrepressible Pippi Longstocking is cause for celebration. The island is fantastic and Pippi has one crazy adventure after another! Pippi is even made a princess-Princess Pippilotta. Book Synopsis When Pippis father, the king, sends for her, she decides to take her best friends Tommy and Annika with her to Kurrekurredutt Island. About the Book Translation of: Pippi Langstrump i Soderhavet. ![]()
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