ASTRID LINGREN and ANNA RIWKIN-BRICK

Anna Riwkin-Brick

Anna Riwkin was born in 1908 in Russia, but grew up and made her career in Sweden. She is probably best remembered for her photographic books about children in different countries. The collaboration with Astrid Lindgren began with Noriko-San: Girl of Japan (1956) and continued with a string of photographic picture-books – My Swedish Cousins (1959), Circus Child (1960), to name but a few. What was characteristic of Anna Riwkin was her deep insight into the things that all people can relate to – things that we all have in common.
In 1958, the New York Herald-Tribune’s Spring Festival Award was presented as a joint prize to Anna Riwkin and Astrid Lindgren for the book Sia lives on Kilimanjaro. That was the first time this prize had been won by a photographic picture-book. Anna Riwkin died in 1970, in Israel.

ASTRID LINGREN

Female : Children's Writer. Married Sture Lindgren 1931 (he died 1952)

Nationality : Swedish Place of Birth : Vimmerby

Date of Birth : 1907 Date of Death : 2002 Age : 94

Pseudonyms : Born Astrid Ericsson

Other Work : Editor in Chief of the publishing house of Raben & Sjorgen 1946-1970

1954-1960

Pippi Longstocking (1954 OUP) - Richard Kennedy

[Filmed in 1988 as "the New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking"]

[and in 1997 as "Pippi Longstocking"]

Pippi Goes Abroad (1956 OUP) - Richard Kennedy

Pippi in the South Seas (1957 OUP) - Richard Kennedy

[Filmed in 1974]

Noriko-San Girl of Japan (1958 Methuen) - Anna Riwkin-Brick

Eric and Karlsson-on-the-Roof (1958 OUP) - Richard Kennedy

Sia Lives on Kilimanjaro (1959 Methuen) - Anna Riwkin-Brick

Circus Child (1960 Methuen) - Photos Anna Riwkin-Brick

My Swedish Cousins (1960 Macmillan) - Photos Anna Riwkin-Brick

1961-1965

Rasmus and the Tramp (1961 Methuen) - Eric Palmquist

Rasmus and the Vagabond, Rasmus and the Tramp (1961 Methuen)

The Tomten (1962 Constable) (1964 Longmans Green, NY) - Harald Wiberg

Kati in Italy (1962 Brockhampton Press) - Daniel Dupuy

Dirk Lives in Holland (1963 Methuen) - with Anna Riwkin-Brick

Marko Lives in Yugoslavia (1963 Methuen) - with Anna Riwkin-Brick

Madicken (1963 OUP) - Ilon Wikland

The Six Bullerby Children (1963 Methuen) - Ilon Wikland

Christmas at Bullerby (1964 Methuen) - Ilon Wikland

Kati in America (1964 Brockhampton) - Daniel Dupuy

Simon Small Moves in (1965 Burke) - Ilon Wikland

Gerda Lives in Norway (1965 Methuen) - with Anna Riwkin-Brick

1966-1970

The Fox and the Tomten (1966 Constable) - Harald Wiberg

Kati in Paris (1966 Brockhampton) - Daniel Dupuy

Springtime in Noisy Village (1966 Viking NY) - Ilon Wikland

Brenda Helps Grandmother (1966 Burke) - Ilon Wikland

A Day at Bullerby (1967 Methuen)

Noy Lives in Thailand (1967 Methuen) - Photos Anna Riwkin-Brick

Scarecrow Island (1968 Oliver & Boyd)

Scran and the Pirates (1968 Oliver & Boyd)

The Mischievous Martens (1968 Methuen)

Matti Lives in Finland (1969 Methuen) - Photos Anna Riwkin-Brick

Lotta Leaves Home (1969 Methuen)

1971-1975

Karlson on the Roof (1971 Viking NY)

Lotta's Bike (1973 Methuen)

That Emil (1973 Brockhampton)

Emil's Pranks (1973 Brockhampton)

Emil and His Clever Pig (1974 Brockhampton)

My Very Own Sister (1974 Methuen)