Another Below Deck Podcast - #300 - Astrid Lindgren

Episode Date: October 20, 2025

Nivå: A2-B1 Avsnitt 300 av Simple Swedish Podcast är dedikerat till Astrid Lindgren, författaren bakom så många älskade barnböcker som Pippi Långstrump, Emil i Lönneberga och Ronja Rövardotter. Jag berättar om hennes liv, från barndomen i Småland till hennes karriär som författare och förläggare. Astrid Lindgren var inte bara en författare utan också en aktiv samhällsdebattör som kämpade för rättvisa, särskilt för barn. Hennes böcker har blivit en viktig del av svensk kultur och litteratur. Klicka här för att stödja podden och få transkript till alla avsnitt Ronja Rövardotter på Netflix Astrid Lindgren på SVT Play

Tink day, it is year 1945. You see a flicca with red fletters that sits on a veranda, she has an apa, and she has a white hest, with a pricca, with her on the verandan. And this girl, she will come to forerendra barnliteratured for alltid. She's her, so-clare-pippie Longstrump, and the person who's the character this character.

It's Astrid Lindgren. Who was actually Astrid Lindgren? And how was she

the most most elskated forfatt through times? Well,

welcome to Simple Swedish Podcast and this is the ofsnit

number 300. 300 300 have it and I think that number 300 would be a little special and

Astrid Lindgren I thought I passed it very good so Astrid Lindgren also forfattaren to so many elsked

books that also have been films, we have Pipi Longstrump, we have Emil in Lundbergia, we have Ronia Roveadotter, Barnen in Bullybyn, Carlson on the Tarket, Mio Min Mio, We on Salt Kroquarkan, and many more. Astrid Lindgren was a woman with

grinsless fantasy and creativity and not just her but she worked

worked very actively in the she was in the society

debate and jobed for rightvisa and especially for

and and she she self slutade always at to be born she had always barnasinnet

quar so she she had his inner barn always nevervarand so an

fantastic personliness and very very very important for Sweden's literature and general culture and

maybe the samehlet in stort So Astrid Lindgren She was her 1900 And she She was up

Outanford Wimmerby in Smoland Ismoland is a landscap in Sweden Also a slacks region can you say

It's south out, and Vimmerby, it is in the same area as Emil in Lundyberia. She had a tryggy, she leaped much, and, yeah, a good barndom, and, yeah, a good barnum, and her Her own, her own, was also inspiration for one of her books, The Barnen in Bullerbyn. Then, when she filled 18, also when she became wuxen, can you say. Then, she flitted her to Stockholm. And she studied and became secretary.

and she gifted and she and she began and she began she was writing small novellery and sagas for to

get extra money. An novell on the swenkska is a short beretelse we

break between noveles and a romaner A romance is a long And a novell A short beretting And a saga Yeah

You can say that it is An beretel A little more for Barn A saga So she She started She'd write

Noveler and sagas For to Tiena little extra Pinger And her's first her first her first book

that's her first book that was very strong so she said her genembrot when she

wrote when she wrote something that was Pippy Longstrum and this book

the first the book about Pippe Longstrump it came out 1945 and it was a revolution in

barn literature for Pippie she was a little a young that didn't follow the

reglerna and she followed absolutely not what authorities said to police and says to her and

she says no she was strong she was free and she was also right-vis and that was right-vis is something

that often come up in Astrid Lindgren's berettels both the children and vucsna, Pippie Longstrump. But so-clart, all things that are new, and banbriotting, it's also critiqued.

So there were also many who criticized this story. This is a girl who didn't alls was a good fliccica, like. But Pippi Pippie was with a symbol for barns and perhaps

especially for for flicker and she was a sort of feminist symbol also can

say also that that first forlaget that Astrid sent the manuscripted

to them said no a Forlag is a a company that a booker so if you are

a professor also a person who's a booker a professor then you write your manuscript and skickar

it to forlaget and forlaget says yeah or no so if the forlaget

say no okay then go to next forlag and that did Astrid She went to the forelager, a very large, a fairlarkin in Sweden.

And they said, yeah, and gave out this book, publicer, publicerated, this book. Pipi Longstrum. So, it became starten on Astrid's career as a forfattar. And she became also, actually, on the same forlager, also on Raben and Shogren, this her forelager, so she started job on the forlaggaret

as forleggare. And so-clart, then, on Barnbock's-adlingen. So, she began his career as both and forfeatherer. And she had very strong discipline

in its work. And this discipline had she had she had from bondelivet, also the life at

the landet. For she was she up in a, a bi on landet. Yeah,

so this discipline she, she She said, and then, on the afternoon, she promenered her to forlager and continued job there. And she helped also other forfattahers with their barnbuckers. For Astrid had a special formogue to understand how barn thinker, and how she can't, she's, she could, like, set a

in how a child uplever a beretting. And she had a very great betidealce for the Swedish barncultures, so-called gold-older on 50 and 60th, also, you call it this period for barncultures

gold older, for that, yeah, it was very betideciful. 50thal and 60thal. It was the, this period also,

as Astrid Lingrin was as most active and both as forfattar and as forleggare. But Astrid, was not just

and forfeatherer, she engaged also offently in allical somehels' problems. She was

in the debate in the society. She engaged she

in barn's rightithithes she engaged in the dureholding also,

she's right. She engaged she in freedom and mili and democracy so she was very active in

the samehelsdebten and she wrote debattaclars she gave on the shatter on

chancraft on flukting-born and it was from for all barnen that was

important for her Astrid would that people would behandle barn with love and respect. So that was

very important for Astrid Lindgren. An another character that Astrid that was Emil in Luneberga. And Emil in

Lundberia, this beretsen, It came from when when Astrid Lindgren tried to tryst his

barn-born So yeah her barn- is so course her

barn So she was so she was father-mour or mormor

and this barn-born Carl Joan Screak and Grat

and Astrid started a a story spontaneously she said can you guess

what Emil did it one so said she said she to his barn-born Carl Joan and this

name emil in Luneberia it just come spontaneous and she She's

She's She's And she And she And it And she This is Emily Luneberja

It's inspired of Henness Pappas Berthels From Wimmerby

and and his history and his own Barndom in Smoland

So it There are many characters in this about Emily Lunderberg that are based on really people. So many of these characters are based on people that have funnits on really. And, yeah,

the life in Lunderberia It is a A, a A, a Ableak-black To live Kring Sekelshiftet. Sekelshiftet,

also, shiftet between 1800-tallet and 1900-tallet. So, it shifts

a sekel. A-keel or an o'-hundra. So, And so, sekelshifted, also around year 100,

Uniffer there outspelary So, when you know, when they're these

booker, or when you look on the filmer, so, so, so,

you know, how the life actually was in Sweden in Sweden on

the time. and, and, and, and, and, and, astrid Lindgren's even barndom. So, very interesting, if you want to see a little history of how life was, beretted on a very fine set with much-kir-like. So, it can absolutely recommender to call in Emil in Lundyberia. And it was often so that Astrid Lindgren was inspired, of its own inspired of

people from the reality. And a another theme that often come up in Astri Lingren's

berettels. It is that the personer protester against orritvisors and authoriteter.

Also the these these the the their they protested

they protested they're they're and they protested and they did you Astrid

was so was actually in the and I'm trying to work

and so. To example in Pipi Longstrump there come police and Kling and clang, they come to Pippies' house

and says that, Pippie, now must you come and we can setta you on the barn home. So you can not be here, we must see to that you come to a barn home. Okay. But

Pippie, she just castes out Kling and Klan, these policemen. She casts out. She castes out them from so she says, no, I will not, I will not, that you bestemmer, how I

live my life. And also Emil, he infrugasetter people with might, he helps, the swagger menhors'emps, and he does not There's skilln't on

people and He has He has a lot of He has a Retspatus He can you say He likes He'll not

Rika meniches Fattier Mennich Alla are Lika for him And so-clart So, so Stor alltid Barnen in

Centrum in Astrid Lingren's Berthels And Hersts They are so Mensklyga And

Relaterbable Also Mentioner over whole World can Relatera To these These characters

And these And both Barn And Wuxner Both All All Samhalsklasser

can relate to this people from different people. So that is something very very hefty, can I think. And Astrid Lindgren, she continued

to write, debaterer and so further end in on 90thalet. So she was also active as the forefattar from 40thal

to 90thalet. So a long career. She died year 2002. She was 94 years and when she did

so yeah the whole Sweden so that and milliontals lesters

worlden over but his berthels they live quark, in books, in films and in our heart, so clare. And it produces still new versions of

herness beretters. I think for two years ago, or maybe the first year, so come Ronja Roveadotter out on Netflix, as a new version of the the 80thalet snart comes a new version of

we on saltcroquan coming on SVT Play but I think that the old saltcrokan is still

very very very worth to see it gives hairly summer-vibbber so call in

we on we on salt crotan, it's on on SVT Play so clear in Pippe in Pippe Longstrump there's on SVT Play call in Emilie

Lonergeria call in the gamela Ronja Roverdottor I don't know where you know what you know what you know about it but the new Ronja Roveadotter finds on Netflix call in Carlson

on the talket Barnen in Bulllebyn Nils Carlson Pissling Calle Blomquist Mio, Mio, I'm in Mio that, that film is little special

for that you have chended Hollywood skodicers like Christopher Lee and Christian Bale, Christian Bale as a little poike and they are dubbeded to

Swedish. Yeah, quite cool. Then, there many I'madikken, Rasmus on Lutton, Lotta on Browkergarten, Browderna, Leon, Gerta. Many, many, very herlily berettels. So, both as book, and as film or series. So, an really culture, scat. And for you, who learn it in Spanish, so is, yeah, it is a must, I say.

that you must actually listen Astrid Lindgren's and call on the filmer and let you furras bought in in

Astrid Lingren's fantassifulled world. That was all for me today. I hopeas you have gillated this episode

and so we'll soon again. Hey, hey.