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Additionally, grown-up readers were shaken by the straightforward depiction of death, particularly at the end of the novel. For those in power, Astrid Lindgren became the superior opponent in that debate. Her close friends Olle Holmberg, critic and professor of literature in Lund, and Per-Martin Hamberg, author and radio producer, both passed away that year.
Throughout her life she consistently opposed injustice and oppression. Wild strawberries among the rocks, carpets of blue spring flowers, meadows full of cowslips, special places where blueberries could be found, the forest where dainty pink flowers were nestling in the moss, the paddocks around Näs where we knew every little path and every little stone, the creek with the water lilies, ditches, streams and trees — I remember all this more than the people.
But how could we go about that, and where should we start?
The characters
Astrid wrote a big spread article for debate in the form of a fairytale to which she gave the name, Pomperipossa in Monismania. In her last book she reconnects to the symbiotic relationship with nature that she experienced in her childhood. Of our trying quite simply to become a new kind of human beings?
The following year Sweden prohibited corporal punishment against children by law. But of that beautiful environment which framed my days then and filled them with such intensity, that as a grown-up you can hardly comprehend it.
You were absolutely helpless, when anything happened, illness or any of the other difficult things in life. Astrid was in great need of comfort herself, in May her big brother Gunnar died after a few years of illness. The previous year, , her beloved father Samuel August had passed away and the last book about Emil in Lönneberga was dedicated to him.
In the autumn of , she entered into a new debate — this time the subject was Swedish animal-treatment policies.
The article was a blistering attack on the Social Democratic government and its taxation policies. The articles also led to a long-term working relationship between Astrid Lindgren and Expressen. I believe that we should start from the bottom. Through the eyes of Mardie the book depicted social injustices, class differences and oppression.
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Mardie is the privileged girl with a profound passion for fairness, who discovers exactly how relentlessly and deeply unfair society is. With the children. In terms of party politics she was convinced that she belonged with the social democrats from as early as the s. It was only when Astrid threatened to not accept the prize that she was allowed to give her speech at the prize ceremony. In it was time for the next big controversial political issue - the Swedish nuclear power referendum.
Astrid Lindgren was deeply involved in the issue and became one of the most famous proponents of Option 3 - the proposal that sought to cease using nuclear power, to close power stations and to ban uranium mining. In Astrid Lindgren also jumped straight into public political debate.
Gunnar was the sibling that Astrid had been closest with and his passing affected her deeply. This position permeates through more or less her entire output. During the first two years of the s no new Astrid Lindgren books were released, other than various re-workings of her books into picture books or older Pippi comics. The book was criticised by radical left-wing critics for not being political or for being politically simplified.
Then in the autumn of The Brothers Lionheart was published - an adventure novel and a romantic, timeless story about the fight between good and evil, about courage and fear, love and death. It was considered too dark and frightening.
Some even thought that it encouraged children to commit suicide. At the same time as the fight against nuclear power wore on, Astrid Lindgren was writing what would become her last great novel - Ronja, the Robber's Daughter , published in The animal welfare campaign extended over a period of ten years between the 80s and 90s and Astrid Lindgren became a force to be reckoned with in the pro-environmental movement.
Of our learning to distance ourselves from violence? In Germany the speech was highly controversial. And he explained that if you were really poor it was like being tied hand and foot, you could do nothing. Astrid Lindgren received thousands of letters from young readers thanking her, telling her how they felt comforted, and wondering what happened to Crusty and Jonathan in Nangilima.
In her speech, still critically important in the present day, she forcefully addressed violence, corporal punishment and oppressive methods of childrearing. However, the children reading the book appeared to interpret it completely differently from the adults. The story, they stated, was not realistic and did not explain the structural reasons for evilness and oppression.