Astrid Lindgren

Astrid Lindgren was born on 14 November 1907 at Näs, near Vimmerby, the daughter of a farmer. Employed at the local newspaper, she became pregnant by the editor-in-chief, a married man; she left for Stockholm to learn shorthand, and her son, whom she gave birth to in Copenhagen in 1926, spent his first years in a Danish foster family. She later worked in children's publishing at Rabén & Sjögren. In 1978, she gave a speech in Germany against violence towards children; the following year, Sweden banned corporal punishment. She died in Stockholm on 28 January 2002.

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