2nd Prize in the Rabén & Sjögren competition – Girls’ books, 10-15 yrs
First Prize in the Rabén & Sjögren competition – Children’s books, 6-10 yrs, for Pippi Longstocking
Svenska Dagbladet’s Literature Award (shared with another prize winner)
Shared 1st Prize in the Rabén & Sjögren competition – Detective Stories for Youth
The Nils Holgersson Plaque
Deutscher Jugendbuchpreis Sonderpreis (The German Youth Book Prize, Special Award), Germany, for Mio, my Son
Government Scholarship for authors of high literary merit
The H C Andersen Award
Children´s Spring Book Festival Award, USA
Tidningen Vi's literary prize
Government Artistic Award
Svensk Damtidning’s literature scholarship
Expressen’s “Heffalump” Award for Emil and His Clever Pig
Swedish Society for the Promotion of Literature: “Golden Ship” Award
Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, USA, for Christmas in the stable
The Swedish Academy’s Grand Gold Medal
Linköping University, Sweden: Honorary PhD
The Brooklyn Art Books For Children’s Citations, USA
Lewis Carroll Shelf Award for Pippi Longstocking
“Silvergriffel” Award, Holland, for Lotta on Troublemaker Street
Book Traders’ Assistants’ Plaque, “Your book – our choice” for The Brothers Lionheart
“Smile Award”, Soviet Union
“Silvergriffel” Award, Holland, for The Brothers Lionheart
Litteris et artibus (Royal Medal 8th Grade)
The Thriller Academy Award for best Swedish Teenage Thriller for Bill Bergson, Master Detective
German Booksellers’ Peace Prize, Germany
International Writer´s Award, Wales, Great Britain
Leicester University, England: Honorary Doctorate of Letters
The Janus-Korczak Award, Poland, for The Brothers Lionheart
Wilhelm-Hauff-Preis, for The Brothers Lionheart
The Bambi Award, Germany
Vimmerby Council: Culture Award
“Silvergriffel” Award, Holland, for Ronja the Robber´s Daughter
Swedish Tourist Association: Dag Hammarskjöld Medal
John Hanson Award
Mildred L. Batchelder Award, USA, for Ronja the Robber´s Daughter
The Jovanic Zmaj Award, Yugoslavia
Swedish Government: Illis Quorum – 12th Grade
The Karen Blixen Award, Denmark
Loisirs jeunes élus par l´enfant, France
The Selma Lagerlöf Award
Swedish Council of America names Astrid Lindgren, “Swede of the Year”
The Lego Prize, Denmark
The Swedish Society for Nature Conservation names Astrid Lindgren, “Animal Lover of the Year”
Leo Tolstoy International Gold Medal, the Sovjet Union
The Swedish Nursing Mother´s Support Group Prize
The Haro Medal
Warsaw University, Poland: Honorary Doctorate
Albert Schweitzer Medal, Washington, USA
Russian Authors’ Union, Soviet Union: “The Four Girls’ Medal”
The Gustav Fröding Scholarship
Society for the Protection of Animals: USA Joseph Wood-Krutch Medal
Officer of the French Society of Arts and Lettres, France
“Smålander” of the year, by the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation in Jönköping
UNESCO Book Award, Vienna, Austria
Foreign Press Association of Sweden Prize
S:t Erik Medal
Telia Speaker’s Prize
Danish Clog Prize, Aarhus, Denmark
“The Right Livelihood Award”, sometimes called “The Alternative Nobel Prize”.
Deutscher Videopreis (German Video Award), Germany
The Albert Engström Prize
Mickel Prize
General Children’s House Grand Prize
The Golden Ark Award, Brussels, Belgium
Slovenian Government Medal, Honorary Sign of Freedom, Slovenia
Gold Record (70,000 copies sold)
Gabriella Mistral Prize, Chile
BRIS (Children’s Rights in Society) Prize
Swede of the Year in the World
Wilhelm Hansen Foundation Prize
Torgny Segerstedt’s Freedom Pen
Swede of the Century, Aftonbladet
Linköping University, Sweden: Honorary Doctorate of Medicine
Solstickan Match Company Award
Corine Internationaler Buchpreis, Germany (posthumous)
Cultural Award, American-Scandinavian Foundation “for service to America and Scandinavia” (posthumous)