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{{quote|"There is very little you can beat into a child, but no limit to what you can hug out of it." |Astrid Lindgren}}
Swedish author of children's books, 1907-2002. Her books have been translated into 85 languages, published in more than a hundred countries and sold more than 145 million copies. She has written dozens of books; some of the most famous ones are ''[[Pippi Longstocking]]'', ''Mio, my Mio'' (pronounced ''Mee-o''), and ''[[Karlsson on the Roof]]''. They verge from the relatively mundane (''The Children of Noisy Village'') to children's detective stories (the ''Bill Bergson'' series) to straight-out fantasy (''[[
She has an asteroid named for her; on learning this, she commented that henceforth they could call her "Asteroid Lindgren". She also did narrated readings of many of her books for Swedish television and radio.
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