Saltkråkan AB owns and reserves the rights to Astrid Lindgren’s works. The company is run by Astrid Lindgren’s heirs and this is where you can seek answers to all your enquiries concerning copyright and to what extent you are permitted to use Astrid Lindgren’s works.
www.saltkrakan.se
Astrid Lindgren’s Näs is a new cultural centre in Vimmerby and has been erected next to Astrid Lindgren’s childhood home. There are exhibitions, an information centre, a cinema and a café. You can walk around the garden where Astrid played as a child and see, amongst other things, the “real” lemonade tree.
www.astridlindgrensnas.se
This large theatre park in Vimmerby has been created entirely around Astrid Lindgren’s fairytales and stories. Here you can meet Karlsson on the Roof, Mardie, Ronia the Robber’s Daughter, Emil in Lönneberga and not to mention Pippi Longstocking, in the various plays which are performed throughout the day, all summer.
www.alv.se
The world’s biggest prize for children’s and young people’s literature and the second largest literature award, all categories. The prize totals 5 million Swedish Kronor and is awarded annually.
www.alma.se
There is a fabulous house on Djurgården – Junibacken!
Come and experience a magical day in our fabulous house, a house that just bubbles of stories, laughter, familiar fairy tale characters and fabulous playing about. In the center stands the Story train and Astrid Lindgren’s wonderful stories, but you also get to meet many other famous characters and see children’s theater!
The Swedish publishing firm which has published and distributed Astrid Lindgren’s books, and where Astrid worked as publishing editor of children’s books for many years.
www.rabensjogren.se
The Astrid Lindgren archive is housed in the National Library in Stockholm. In 2005 the collection was added to UNESCO’s “Memory of the World Register”, a listing of archives and documents considered to be of value for the whole of mankind.
www.kb.se
The library at the Swedish Institute for Children’s Books houses nearly all the books for children and youth that have been published in Sweden since 1591. Founded in 1965, its stated objective is to put together a collection of all the books written for children and youth published in Sweden, to make it widely accessible as a resource, and to promote knowledge about literature for the young as well as about children’s reading habits.
www.sbi.kb.se
This publishing firm in Germany has been responsible for the distribution of almost all the Astrid Lindgren books which have been translated into German so far.
www.oetinger.de
Save the Children Sweden is a non-governmental organization. The basis of our work is the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the United Nations’ Declaration on Human Rights. These build on the principles that all people are equal, children have special rights and everyone has a responsibility – but governments have a special obligation.
Save the Children