{"id":5295,"date":"2025-02-04T09:39:46","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T08:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/astridlindgrensnas.se\/about-astrid-lindgren\/"},"modified":"2025-04-23T15:16:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T13:16:20","slug":"about-astrid-lindgren","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/astridlindgrensnas.se\/en\/about-astrid-lindgren\/","title":{"rendered":"About Astrid Lindgren"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"relative flex flex-col items-center  w-full justify-center \">\n\t\t<div class=\"w-full h-[60vh] min-h-[500px] tablet:max-h-[700px] bg-gradient-to-t opacity-60 from-blackish absolute bottom-0\">\n\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"top-0 object-cover w-full h-[60vh] min-h-[700px] mobile:min-h-[540px] desktop:max-h-[650px] tablet:max-h-[700px]\" src=\"https:\/\/astridlindgrensnas.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/astrid-lindgren.jpg\" alt=\"\">\n\t\t<div class=\"w-full m-auto text-center absolute bottom-[80px]\">\n\t\t<h1 class=\"text-whiteish\">About Astrid Lindgren<\/h1>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"flex items-center justify-center w-full px-4 py-7\">\n\t<div data-aos=\" \" data-aos-duration=\"\" class=\"flex flex-col items-center w-full gap-5 m-auto text-center inner-contain\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"-large text-darkGreen\">Astrid Lindgren&#8217;s work is unique and filled with meaning. She was a staunch humanist and fought for children\u2019s rights, equality and animal rights. She stood up for her views with civil courage and seriousness but also with humour and love. But it is as a writer of children&#8217;s books that Astrid has become best known around the world.<br \/>\r\n<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"w-full\">\n\t<div class=\"flex flex-col w-full m-auto py-7 gap-7 inner-contain\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div data-aos=\"\" data-aos-duration=\"\" class=\"flex relative items-center justify-between w-full m-auto tablet:w-3\/4 tablet-sm:w-full tablet:flex-col-reverse desktop-sm:px-4 gap-7 \">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"flex flex-col items-start justify-center w-full gap-5 max-w-[40%] tablet:max-w-full\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"-demi text-darkGreen\">The origins of a story<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"text-black text-[20px]\">Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren was born on 14 November 1907 on N\u00e4s farm, just on the outskirts of the town of Vimmerby. Astrid was the second of four siblings.  Her and her siblings, together with the cowman&#8217;s children and the children from the vicarage next door, were the real life children of Noisy Village. The story of their games has now spread all over the world.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"flex items-center justify-center w-full\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"object-cover w-full h-[30rem] mobile-sm:h-[16rem] mobile:h-[18rem] rounded-lg\" src=\"https:\/\/astridlindgrensnas.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/front.jpg\" alt=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div data-aos=\"\" data-aos-duration=\"\" class=\"flex relative items-center justify-between w-full m-auto tablet:w-3\/4 tablet-sm:w-full tablet:flex-col-reverse desktop-sm:px-4 gap-7 flex-row-reverse\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"flex flex-col items-start justify-center w-full gap-5 max-w-[40%] tablet:max-w-full\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"-demi text-darkGreen\">From Vimmerby to Stockholm<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"text-black text-[20px]\">Astrid Lindgren attended school in Vimmerby, and the settings for her stories are influenced both by the countryside and the small town. Early in her life she moved to Stockholm, which is how a certain Karlsson eventually came to fly around Vasastan, where Astrid herself lived, and a lonely boy called Bo Vilhelm Olsson came to sit and dream on a bench in Tegn\u00e9rlunden, which she passed every day on her way to work.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"flex items-center justify-center w-full\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"object-cover w-full h-[30rem] mobile-sm:h-[16rem] mobile:h-[18rem] rounded-lg\" src=\"https:\/\/astridlindgrensnas.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/boktraven-i-liggande-format.jpg\" alt=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div><div id=\"om-astrid\" class=\"flex flex-col w-full m-auto py-7 fp-image-contain \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"relative w-full min-h-[988px] mb-[-64px] tablet:mb-[-128px] mobile:min-h-[640px] m-auto flex align-center justify-start flex-col fp-image-contain\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" data-aos=\"\" data-aos-duration=\"\" class=\"object-cover w-full max-h-[860px] rounded-xl desktop-md:rounded-none min-h-[700px] mobile:min-h-[490px]\" src=\"https:\/\/astridlindgrensnas.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/girl-with-astrid-from-the-exhibition-the-whole-worlds-astrid-lindgren-photo-jacob-forsell.jpg\" alt=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"absolute bottom-[64px] flex flex-col items-center w-full m-auto gap-7 mobile:px-4\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"bg-whiteish lg-shadow p-[80px] mobile:p-4 flex flex-col tablet:w-[90%] mobile:w-full text-black text-center inner-contain rounded-lg w-full items-center\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"flex flex-col max-w-[760px] gap-5 mobile:gap-3 items-center\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"flex flex-col gap-2 text-center\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"text-darkGreen mobile:text-[24px] uppercase -wilma\">The power of imagination<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"-medium text-trueBlack mobile:!text-[14px]\">But stories can take place anywhere there are children who read and believe in the miracle of imagination. The Land of Faraway and the Land of Twilight are accessible to children all over the world.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"flex items-center justify-center w-full py-7\">\n\t<div data-aos=\"\" data-aos-duration=\"\" class=\"flex flex-col items-center justify-center w-full gap-4 px-6 m-auto text-center inner-contain mobile:px-4\">\n\t\t<h2 class=\"-italic text-[36px]  leading-[1.5] text-darkGreen text-center\">\n\t\t\t\u201cA child, alone with his book, creates for himself, somewhere in the secret recesses of the soul, his own pictures which surpass all else. Such pictures are necessary for humanity. On the day that the children\u2019s imagination no longer has the strength to create them, on that day humanity will be poorer. All great things that have happened in the world, happened first of all in someone\u2019s imagination, and the aspect of the world of tomorrow depends largely on the extent of the power of imagination in those who are just now learning to read. This is why children must have books.\u201d<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t<p class=\"text-[20px] text-darkGreen\">Excerpt from Astrid Lindgren&#8217;s acceptance speech upon receiving the HC Andersen Award in 1958<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5295","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astridlindgrensnas.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astridlindgrensnas.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astridlindgrensnas.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astridlindgrensnas.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astridlindgrensnas.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5295"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/astridlindgrensnas.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5410,"href":"https:\/\/astridlindgrensnas.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5295\/revisions\/5410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astridlindgrensnas.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}