Among those attending were King Carl XVI Gustaf with Queen Silvia and others of the royal family, and Prime Minister Göran Persson.

In the early 1940s, she worked as a secretary for criminalist Harry Söderman; the Norsk biografisk leksikon cites this experience as an inspiration for her fictional detective Bill Bergson.

(Rabén & Sjögren published it with illustrations by Ingrid Vang Nyman, the latter's debut in Sweden.)

[13][14] While Lindgren almost immediately became a much-appreciated writer, the irreverent attitude towards adult authority that distinguishes many of her characters has occasionally drawn the ire of conservatives.

[24] In 1976, a scandal arose in Sweden when it was publicised that Lindgren's marginal tax rate had risen to 102 per cent.

She responded by raising the issue of the lack of women involved in the Social Democrats' campaign.

Another controversy involved Ingmar Bergman's farewell letter to Sweden after charges had been made against him of tax evasion.

[29] In 1978, when she received the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, Lindgren spoke against corporal punishment of children in a speech entitled Never Violence!

[31] From 1985 to 1989, Lindgren, with veterinarian Kristina Forslund, wrote articles concerning animal protection and mass production in the Swedish newspapers Expressen and Dagens Nyheter.

The articles Forslund and Lindgren wrote were later published in the book Min ko vill ha roligt (My cow wants to have fun).

[33] Lindgren was well known both for her support for children's and animal rights and for her opposition to corporal punishment and the EU.

[34] In 1994, she received the Right Livelihood Award, "For her commitment to justice, non-violence and understanding of minorities as well as her love and caring for nature.

[37] The prize—40,000 Swedish kronor—is awarded to a Swedish-language children's writer every year on Lindgren's birthday in November.

[41] Its entry on Lindgren stated that "Her niche in children's fantasy remains both secure and exalted.

[43][44] The collection of Lindgren's original manuscripts in the National Library of Sweden in Stockholm was placed on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register in 2005.

[45] On 6 April 2011, Sweden's central bank Sveriges Riksbank announced that Lindgren's portrait would feature on the 20 kronor banknote, beginning in 2014–2015.

[48] In 1972, Lindgren was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature by German literary critic Klaus Doderer and Austrian librarian Josef Stummvoll.

The sculpture consists of an artistic representation of a young person's head (1.37 m high), flattened on top, in the corner of a square pond, and, just above the water, a ring of rosehip thorns.

The author is buried in Vimmerby,[55] where the Astrid Lindgren's World theme park is located.

[24] The adaptation of Lindgren's books for film started with Rolf Husberg's 1947 Bill Bergson, Master Detective.