A list of all the languages that one or more of Astrid Lindgren's books have been translated into. The list is updated June 2022.
Afrikaans, Albanian, Alsatian, Amharic, Anii, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani
Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian
Cakavian (Croatian dialect), Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Chuvash, Croatian, Cymraeg (Welsh), Czech
Danish, Dari, Dutch and Flemish
Elfdalian (a dialect of Northern Dalarna), English, Esperanto, Estonian
Faroese, Fering-Frisian, Finnish, French
Galician, Georgian, German, Greenlandic
Hebrew, HillMari, Hindi, Hungarian
Icelandic, Indonesian, Interlingua, Irish (Gaelic), Italian
Japanese
Karelian, Kazak, Khmer, Kildin Sami (a Sami language), Korean, Kurmanji (a Kurdish language), Kyrgyz
Ladin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lule-Saamic (one of the languages of the Sami people), Luxembourgish
Macedonian, Marathi, Meänkieli (a northern Finnish dialect), Modern Greek, Moldavian, Mongolian, Montenegrin, Mooring-Frisian (northern dialect)
Nepalese, New Norwegian, North Saamic, Norwegian Bokmål
Oriya
Pashto, Persian, Plattdeutsch (Low German), Polish, Portuguese (both Brazilian and Portuguese), Putèr
Romanian, Romany, Rumantsch Grischun, Russian
Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Seselwa (Seychelles Creole), Silesian, Singhalese, Slovakian, Slovenian, Somali, Sorani (a Kurdish language), Soreth, Southern Sami, Spanish, Sursilvan, Swahili, Sylt-Frisian
Tamil, Tartar, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkish, Turkmen
Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek
Vallader, Vietnamese
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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