Showing posts with label Astrid Lindgren. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Astrid Lindgren. Show all posts

Thursday, 28 July 2022

Moomin features in anti-Finland propaganda on Moscow streets


A Russian campaign against pending NATO members Finland and Sweden appears to be a continuation of similar propaganda seen in the Russian capital last May, when Astrid Lindgren was accused of having been a Nazi. 

https://yle.fi/news/3-12535510

The Finnish Internet has not been slow to come with some appropriately barbed responses, e.g. https://twitter.com/pmakela1/status/1552555790673788928


Tuesday, 8 December 2009

Lost and found

In Hufvudstadsbladet's Plock & Fynd, Annika Hällsten considers the slightly uusual friendship between the Swedish feminist Ellen Key and the Swedish author Astrid Lindgren, and Pia Ingström reflects on some meaningful remarks cast in her direction by two literary men at the recent award ceremony for the Finlandia Prize (won this year by Antti Hyry). There is also a discussion of Slow Reading in Finland...