Draken med de röda ögonen (Swedish)
""I remember my dragon. I will never forget that morning in April when I saw him for the first time." The round-nosed sow gives birth to ten piglets and a red-eyed Dragon. And then he grows up there, along with the other pigs. The two siblings feed him leftover candle stubs and string. But he never seems quite happy…In December 1953, Astrid Lindgren received a letter from two thirteen-year-old boys who asked for "just a little story about a dragon" for her own magazine "The Masked Dragon". Astrid Lindgren then wrote The Dragon with the Red Eyes and sent it to the two boys. It is that story that is here published as a picture book with illustrations by Ilon Wikland."
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The first to bring Astrid Lindgren's books abroad was the publisher Damm & Søn in Oslo, with their Norwegian edition of "Pippi Longstocking" already appearing in 1946. This marked the beginning of a long-standing relationship. Today, most of her books in Norway are published by Cappelen Damm, a publishing house formed through the merger of Cappelen and Damm. Astrid's book adaptations into films also became popular in Norway, as did her famous songs. One of Astrid Lindgren's favorite books was "Hunger" by the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun; she often mentioned it as one of her greatest reading experiences.