Lin Gelun 1907 was born in a peasant family in Smolan, Sweden. He went to study in Stockholm in the 1920s, and worked in a children's book publishing company in Stockholm for a long time after graduation. From 1946 to 1970, he was the editor-in-chief of the children's department of Lamy and Sioglen Publishing Company, which initiated the golden age of Swedish children's literature. His representative works include Carlson Dumbo, Mio, My Mio, Brothers with Lions' Hearts, Daughter of the Greenwood, Amir the Naughty Bag, etc. She has created 87 children's literature works for children.

Her works have been translated into about 80 languages and widely distributed all over the world, and many of them have been adapted into movies and TV series. Over the years, Lin Gelun's major works have been translated into Chinese, which has become a treasure in the eyes of countless children and an unforgettable reading memory for countless adults. Her works have been translated into 86 languages with a circulation of1.300 million copies.

She successfully used her works to leave one childhood companion after another for the children who will never grow up all over the world. Pippi Longstocking liberated children and children's literature from tradition, superstitious authority and moralism to a certain extent ... Pippi has become a symbol of free human beings. "

Lin Gelun's experience

/kloc-in the winter of 0/944, Lin Gelun injured his leg skiing. When he was recovering from illness, he wrote a story called Pippi Longstocking, which is very famous in Europe and even the whole world. Her fairy tale masterpiece "Flying Carlson" won the first Niels Howerson Award. The work Mio, My Mio from 1957 won the Swedish National Prize of "Advanced Literary Writer". From 65438 to 0958, the International Children's Book Association awarded her the International Andersen Children's Literature Writer Award. 1960, Madiqin's story was published.

1963, the story of the naughty emir was published. 1966, won the special prize of German Youth Book Competition. 1970, won the Golden Boat Award for Children's Literature and Literature Promotion in Swedish Express. 197 1 year, won the gold medal of Swedish Academy Literature Award. 198 1 year, the long fairy tale "The Daughter of the Greenwood" was published. 1978 was awarded the Peace Prize by the German Booksellers Federation. Her works have been translated into about 80 languages and widely distributed all over the world, and many of them have been adapted into movies and TV series.

She has written more than 80 children's literature works. 1957 won the national prize of "advanced literary writer" in Sweden; 1958 won the "Andersen Gold Award"; 197 1 was awarded the "Gold Medal" by the Swedish Academy Literature Award.

An academician of the Faculty of Literature of Sweden University said at the award ceremony: "Dear madam, among the Swedes currently engaged in literary and artistic activities, except ingmar bergman, no one is as world-famous as you." Schaegerling Publishing Company also established the Lin Gelun Children's Literature Award in 1972 to commemorate her creative achievements.

Astrid Lindegren, a world-famous Swedish children's literature writer, died at his home in Stockholm on October 28th, 2002, at the age of 94. Karin Nieman, Lin Gelun's daughter, announced to the media that her mother had been ill for some time in the past, and she was seriously infected with the virus in the last month, which was eventually cured.