Astrids childhood was very happy, she was born in 1907, safe and harmonious  - generally she was as happy as the children in her book "Bullerbyn". Already as a teenager she got her essay featured in "The Wimmerby Magazin".

She graduated and began to work on Wimmerby Magazine. 18 years old she got  pregnant with the newspapers chief editor. He was in love with her and offer himself to marry her, but Astrid said: "Rather the death than that." Instead she went to Copenhagen and gave birth to Lars 1926. Since Astrid neither had firm work or dwelling got she had to leave  him to a fosterfamily.

One can see a conjunction between the dessision to leave her son and several of her stories are about lonely and orphaned children that receives it good finally. Astrid went to Stockholm, there she got education as a clerk.

She got married in 1931 with her boss, Sture Lindgren, got her son Lars back home and had a daughter, Karin. During these years she wrote small fairy-tales for some newspapers. Then she took a part-time work as a childrens books editor on Rabén & Sjögren.  Astrid becames a celebrity - among others in the radioshow "Twenty questions".

In her private life she continued to hit by catastrophies. She became a widow in 1952,  only 45 year's old. In the middle of the 80ies her son got cancer and died.

When Astrid not longer could transfer notes to typewritten text, beacuse of losing her sigth more and more she decided to give up writening. Her last skript in 1992 is called "A christmas when I was little". Many of her books have been filmed.

In Sweden we voted about nuclear power in 1980 and Astrid took position against the nuclear power, but the question about childrens rights have always been the most important issue for her. Astrid Lindgren have had a big political role when it goes for childrens best in the society and the animals rights since 1980. She has been working actively in these the questions in to the 90:ies, despite her high age.

Astrid passed away January 28th, 2002, we all miss you.