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Eurozine
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2007-10-02
Summary of du 8/2007
du780 Astrid Lindgren. So ein Leben!
Due to Astrid Lindgren's hundredth birthday on November 14th du dedicates an issue to the world's most famous writer. The swedish author's vibrancy is unbowed; you can find her books in the nurseries all over the world, and the films about "Pippi" are as popular as they were in the Seventies, when they were produced.
du travels to Bullerbü and to Emil's Maple Hills, to Ronia the Robber's Daughter's Mattis woods and to Näs in Lindgren's birthplace Vimmerby. du meets Astrid's daughter Karin Nyman and her friend Marianne Erikson at Dagaltan 46 in Stockholm, where the famous writer lived for 61 years and where still her typewriter stands.
Viola Roggenkamp wonders why Astrid Lindgren has never got the Nobel prize for literature, and Tilman Spreckelsen examines the role of the failing fathers in Lindgren's works. Madicken, Mio and the Brothers Lionheart romp through the issue, and the readers can ride deep into the Cellar of the Royal Library in Stockholm. There, in a dozen of boxes, Astrid Lindgren's liability is stored letters written by and to children.
Furthermore du finally resolves the question, what a SPUNK actually is. Kirsten Boie, Roger Willemsen, Jana Scheerer, Paul Maar and Hanna Johansen know it! Inger Nilsson, the former Pippi performer, instead, she explaines why she doesn't know... Find out more in
du780 Astrid Lindgren. So ein Leben!