Helen R Brown

A bit player in the great drama

Pippi Longstocking’s creator, helplessly trapped between the ‘giant reptiles’ of Germany and Russia in 1941, finds the Nazis marginally preferable

  • A World Gone Mad: The Diaries of Astrid Lindgren, 1939–1945

    Astrid Lindgren. Translated by Sarah Death

    Pushkin Press, pp. 320

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