# Talk:Astrid Lindgren

This article says that Pippi and Karlsson are the most popular characters. How do we know this? According to the Swedish Wikipedia page she has 14 different book series, which are all very popular in her home-country. Which one has sold the most copies? The longest book series is the Emil i Lönneberga series, which has twelve books, more than Karlsson and Pippi combined.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.225.221.172 (talk) 12:50, 13 June 2009 (UTC) 

The problem is that her books have different cults in different countries.  In the former Soviet Union, Karlsson is a national icon, inspiring everything from lapel pins to a full opera, while Pippi is virtually unknown.  This is why the no POV is such a good policy:  Otherwise edit wars between Pippi and Karlsson partisans might rend the harmony of this article, much as these disputes have lead to battles within my own household.  Even though it should be clear to any sane person that Karlsson is the best EVAH, I hope other editors will keep this conflict in mind.  --Woland (talk) 18:55, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
Pippi Longstocking is much the most widely held by WorldCat libraries (External link WorldCat) and two other Pippis are easily second and third. Interpretation is dicey first because the distribution of WorldCat libraries is unknown, second because titles in different languages are inconsistently counted as editions of the same book. Both points are more important here than elsewhere, first because English is not the first language, second because some are very widely translated. Because interpretation is dicey, we wikipeditors tend to report a bare fact such as underlined above. It can be misleading.
Lindgren received the Andersen Medal --won the "Little Nobel Prize"-- in 1958 for se:Rasmus på luffen (Stockholm: Rabén & Sjögren, 1956), which we cover only indirectly in the film article Rasmus på luffen. Evidently --from the Swedish article and Google Translate-- the book was preceded by a radio drama and a film.
Evidently this is Rasmus and the Vagabond (NY: Viking, 1960), which ranks only #15 in WorldCat libraries. Karlsson-on-the-Roof is #20, the last one listed.[1]
By the way, a glance at WorldCat Formats and editions of Rasmus and the vagabond shows me this book is exceptionally well identified across multiple languages and a glance at Lindgren's Top 20 suggests this is generally true for her works, despite my general observation above. --P64 (talk) 17:52, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Was she a Nazi ? Was she leftist, i think this is a very importnt part of this article, why is it missing ?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.32.109.48 (talk) 10:02, 29 May 2010 (UTC) 

She was very political and wasn't afraid of raising her voice in issues but she was not necessarily associated to any particular party. She was a social democrat in her early years and took very strong stance against racism, nazism and Hitler. In the 70s and 80s however she became very critical to the taxation system of the social democrats, and she was a very strong reason why they lost the election in 1976. She was also very active in children's and animal rights movements, and help pass many laws in those issues. -- Henriok (talk) 01:36, 14 August 2010 (UTC)
She was almost 70 years old in 1976, yet section "Politics" merely says she remained Social Democrat for the rest of her life, as an aside to coverage of that election. The section needs to lead with some general statement. For instance, she was a social democrat all of her life and supported the Social Democrats (Sweden) party thruout, or post-war, or whatever such we know to be true.
We say this SD/Workers Party and the SDLeft/Communist/Left Party split in 1917 (stimulated by the Russian Revolution?). She was then ten.
Of the "very strong stance against racism, nazism and Hitler" per User:Henriok, whatever is well-known and uncontroversial among Swedish editors, or can be documented, should be stated here, near the top of a generally chronological section. --"stance" if strong stance or very strong stance is unsupportable. (The Right Livelihood should be documented here because we use a quotation.)
--P64 (talk) 17:12, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

I agree that the most important part of anybody's biography who lived during Hitler's reign is whether they ever espoused a view which could be interpreted as being in alignment with Nazism.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.232.191.16 (talk) 20:53, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

I renamed this section (was "Bibliography"), provided subsection headings for the two sublists (in place of lame prose headers), divided the latter (now 5.2 "Other books translated into English") in two columns, and moved images to accommodate the new right-hand column. If the entries in sec 5.1 "Best-known books" do get much longer, as with provision of two dates each (below), then more attention to images layout will be needed. I did the minimum to accommodate two-column sec 5.2.
From the end of the latter list I deleted one entry, Kajsa Kavat, which may belong in its alphabetical place. It does appear below as the title of a film. Is it the title of an English-language edition?
Neither the prose nor the list of works gives much attention to genre --novels, picture books, etc-- nor any attention to illustrations. Did she self-illustrate anything? work with any illustrators?
By the way, we say "Lindgren was almost blind a few years before her death" and put her in Category:Blind writers. If she does belong in the cat, the article needs to say more about that.
At least for 5.1 "Best-known books", dates should be provided. I suggest two dates, for first SE-language and EN-language editions.
I provided {{infobox writer}} fields Period and Genre. Someone who knows her career should complete or correct as appropriate.
--P64 (talk) 18:25, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

4. almost blind. Specifically, did she continue to write for publication when blind in some sense that is important for a writer? --P64 (talk) 17:09, 31 July 2013 (UTC)
Perhaps not. Apparently a schoolteacher in Sweden teaches that she stopped because of failing eyesight.[2] --evidently, material for teaching English language to Swedish schoolchildren-- "The last one [of more than 40 books] was Ronja–the robber's daughter, published in 1986. After that Astrid had really bad eyesight and she spend a lot of time answering letters." Afterward, TASK 6 asks "What book was the last one Astrid wrote and why was it the last one?"
--P64 (talk) 22:39, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
"Agneta's English" is the website of a non-notable individual There appears to be no reliable source to confirm that loss of eyesight was important or notable for Lindgren's authorship. I'm removing this category until appropriate references have been presented.
Peter Isotalo 17:41, 17 January 2015 (UTC)

it comes up in the blurb for duckduckgo search engine:

https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Astrid_Lindgren
Astrid Lindgren - Wikipedia  Astrid Lindgren (1907-2002) was a Swedish writer of fiction and screenplays, best known for children's books such as Pippi Longstocking and Mio, My Son. She received many awards and honors, including the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1974 and the Right Livelihood Award in 1994.
65.94.118.198 (talk) 21:15, 16 June 2024 (UTC)

"Period" in this context is either inaccurate or specious, since she did NOT start writing at birth nor during her first year of life, and that category is not merely mean to be a decapitation of the years of birth and death, which would be redundant 2600:1004:B166:D3C4:0:12:E7C8:5501 (talk) 07:18, 17 December 2024 (UTC)