Astrid Lindgren
Astrid Lindgren (14 November 1907 – 28 January 2002) was a Swedish author and screenwriter.
In the late 1940s, when J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit was translated to Swedish as Hompen, Lindgren was responsible for the department of Children's literature at Rabén & Sjögren (the publishers of the translation).[1]
Hovewer, apparently the works of Tolkien did not have a direct influence on Lindgren's own works. While it has been claimed she saying that J.R.R. Tolkien had a great impact on her work[2], more informed sources claim that Lindgren in several interviews denied any influence by Tolkien and that she had not even read The Lord of the Rings[1].
Lindgren wrote three children's books in the genre of fantasy: Mio, min Mio (1954; Mio, my Son), Bröderna Lejonhjärta (1973; The Brothers Lionheart), and Ronja Rövardotter (1981; Ronia the Robber's Daughter). The first two novels might be caracterized as stories of fantasy reminiscent of The Hobbit, where the heroes return home after a perilous adventure. And the latter, Ronia the Robber's Daughter, has been described as a work reminding of the genre High fantasy.[3]
External links
- Astrid Lindgren at Wikipedia
- Tolkien, Astrid Lindgren and Tove Jansson on The Lord of the Rings Fanatics Plaza
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Private correspondance with Lena Törnqvist, member of the committee for the Astrid Lindgren Society (Astrid Lindgren-sällskapet), as of 6 August 2010
- ↑ Lars-Terje Lysemose, "On the founding of Imladris", in Athelas (the English annual), 1994.
- ↑ Johan Sandberg, "Svensk fantasy svälter" ("Swedish Fantasy is Starving") in Tolkiens Arda, issue 14, 2003.
