Pippi Longstocking

Children's writer Astrid Lindgren, best known for creating the popular character Pippi Longstocking, has died in Stockholm at the age of 94.

Friends and relatives say Ms. Lindgren had been ill for several days. She died at a nursing home Monday.

Reaching into her childhood memories of the Swedish countryside, Ms. Lindgren wrote more than 100 works, including novels, short stories, plays, song books and poetry.

Her most popular character was Pippi Longstocking, an adventurous and fearless little girl with freckles, distinctive red pigtails and mismatched stockings.

Ms. Lindgren was immensely popular in her native Sweden, and more than 130 million copies of the "Pippi" stories have been distributed around the world in languages ranging from Azerbaijani to Zulu. The stories also have been adapted for the screen in many versions, including the New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking, released internationally in 1988.

Graphics courtesy of http://www.astridlindgren.se/

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