Viveca serlachius biography channel
Viveca Serlachius was born on 2 March in Helsinki, Finland.
Viveca Serlachius was born on March 2, in Helsinki, Finland.!
Pippi Longstocking: Dated, or Ready for a Modern Adaptation?
Like so many classic children's characters, Pippi Longstocking was born from a child's request for a story.
While confined to her sickbed, young Karin Lindgren asked her mother, the adventurous Swedish journalist Astrid Lindgren, to tell her a story about Pippi Långstrump. Or, as we know her in English,Pippi Longstocking — a name that Karin pulled out of thin air and invented right there on the spot.
Working just as fast, Astrid fabricated a story to go along with this newly created character, giving her a mismatched, raggedy outfit, and a pet monkey.
More importantly, she granted Pippi superhuman strength and a rebellious personality that was unconventional in the 1940s, a reflection of Lindgren's "own childish longing for a person who has power but does not abuse it." The budding author later put pen to paper and turned her stories into a manuscript.
And from there, the rest is his
