Kaiser, Astrid Lindgren. Bright Nights, Dark Forest...

Novel biography
By Maria Regina Kaiser

312 pages with approximately ten illustrations. Hardcover with dust jacket. 13 x 21 cm.

Throughout her life, she championed tolerance and justice, and her stories have captivated generations of children and adults: Astrid Lindgren (1907-2002) is one of the world's most important children's book authors. Despite her great success as a writer, her life was marked by bitter experiences.
After a happy childhood, Astrid becomes unintentionally pregnant at 18 and moves to Stockholm, where she spends years in existential hardship. She discovers writing by chance when she invents the story of Pippi Longstocking for her daughter. The self-confident, strong Pippi quickly wins the hearts of her young readers, as do Emil of Lönneberga, The Brothers Lionheart, and Ronja the Robber's Daughter...
The touching life story of a strong woman and great writer.

• The first novel biography about Astrid Lindgren is an empathetic and respectful homage to one of the most important authors of children's and young adult literature.
• Sensitively told and written with great expertise.
• With a detailed afterword and appendix on the life and work of the Swedish writer.

Maria Regina Kaiser , Ph.D., born in Trier in 1952, studied ancient history, archaeology, and Spanish studies in Frankfurt am Main. After completing her doctorate, she worked in research until 1986, and from 1987 to 1991, she worked as an editor at an academic publishing house. Today, she is a freelance author, primarily of historical novels and highly acclaimed biographies.

Reviews:
"[The book] reads like a captivating novel. Fiction is allowed, but the author tries to stay close to reality. This allows her
also go through some time jumps – filling in the gaps would have required too much imagination. (...) The author succeeds in portraying Astrid Lindgren as a woman of her time." Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung

"(…) the author succeeds in captivating the reader and making them unable to put the book down. The end credits are also very detailed (…)"
Saarland Broadcasting

"With her book, Maria Regina Kaiser has created a wonderful declaration of love to one of the greatest children's book authors of all time. (…) Absolutely recommended reading (…)" Anyah Maria Fredriksson, Lovelybooks

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