Astrid Lindgren has been translated into 109 languages!
A list of all the languages that one or more of Astrid Lindgren's books have been translated into. The list is updated February 2023.
A
Afrikaans, Albanian, Alsatian, Amharic, Anii, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani
B
Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian
C
Cakavian (Croatian dialect), Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Chuvash, Croatian, Cymraeg (Welsh), Czech
D
Danish, Dari, Dutch and Flemish
E
Elfdalian (a dialect of Northern Dalarna), English, Esperanto, Estonian
F
Faroese, Fering-Frisian, Finnish, French
G
Galician, Georgian, German, Greenlandic
H
Hebrew, HillMari, Hindi, Hungarian
I
Icelandic, Indonesian, Interlingua, Irish (Gaelic), Italian
J
Japanese
K
Karelian, Kazak, Khmer, Kildin Sami (a Sami language), Korean, Kurmanji (a Kurdish language), Kyrgyz
L
Ladin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lule-Saamic (one of the languages of the Sami people), Luxembourgish
M
Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Meänkieli (a northern Finnish dialect), Modern Greek, Moldavian, Mongolian, Montenegrin, Mooring-Frisian (northern dialect)
N
Nepalese, New Norwegian, North Saamic, Norwegian Bokmål
O
Oriya
P
Pashto, Persian, Plattdeutsch (Low German), Polish, Portuguese (both Brazilian and Portuguese), Putèr
R
Romanian, Romany, Rumantsch Grischun, Russian
S
Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Seselwa (Seychelles Creole), Silesian, Singhalese, Slovakian, Slovenian, Somali, Sorani (a Kurdish language), Soreth, Southern Sami, Spanish, Sursilvan, Swahili, Sylt-Frisian
T
Tamil, Tartar, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkish, Turkmen
U
Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek
V
Vallader, Vietnamese
Z
Zulu
A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.
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