![]() ![]() “I was bored,” Karin recalled later, “and kept begging my mother to tell me stories. Lindgren’s seven-year-old daughter Karin had been ill in bed and demanding a string of tales to help keep her spirits up, but as a working mother it wasn’t long until fatigue set in and Lindgren’s well of stories began to run dry. ![]() It wasn’t long after the family arrived at Dalagatan that Lindgren created Pippi Longstocking, the remarkable character responsible for the bulk of her success. For all that she sold nearly 170 million books translated into more than 100 languages, Lindgren never moved from the simple home above a restaurant into which she moved with her husband and two children when working as a stenographer for the Swedish equivalent of the RAC. The only clue that this was home to someone more than just a comfortably-off member of the Swedish middle class lies on the many bookshelves: rows of books in different languages and a range of alphabets, all of them bearing the name Astrid Lindgren on their spines. It’s bright, spacious and homely with the kind of mix and match furniture acquired over many years. ![]() Astrid Lindgren began more than 60 years of new days in that apartment between her arrival in 1941 and her death there in 2002. ![]()
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