About the book: 2016 / "Astrid Lindgren. This day is life" is the first biography in 40 years of the great storyteller, whose books have been helping children all over the world cope with the difficult task of growing up for many decades. This book is about herself - a rebel in trousers and a man's jacket, the first in her hometown to cut her long hair , a single mother in Puritan Sweden, the wife of a man whose name she glorified throughout the world... A widow, an artist, a philanthropist, a “wise old woman” - a spiritual mentor throughout Scandinavia, a person who perfectly mastered the art of understanding. The same woman whose independence and love of life was inherited by the famous Pippi Longstocking. In her letters, diaries, photographs, and memories of loved ones, her battles, defeats and victories, moments of inspiration and moments of despair come to life..