PC/18/4/7 - [Brief autobiographical piece]
Reference code
PC/18/4/7
Level of description
Item
Title
[Brief autobiographical piece]
Date/s
200-?
Quantity & Format
3 sub-items Typescript
Personal name
Lindgren, Astrid, 1907-2002
Scope and content
Text begins: ‘The Bible is the key text … ‘
Three copies. One copy [PC/18/4/7/1] used for: “Autobiog. chat with special note on Astrid [Lindgren]”. TS, 3 leaves.
Another copy/version [PC/18/4/7/2] was used in trip to Sydney, 1996, (see also PC/20/2). TS, 3 leaves.
"In my next school it had started - the secret vice - I began doing translations for fun. No one must know, of course, one couldn't be labelled as a swot - but this covert activity, poetry mostly, continued until I left school."
" ... the children's books have been my chief joy as a translator. And among children's writers, none has given me more joy than Astrid Lindgren. I was not, incidentally, the translator of the Pippi Longstocking books - I didn't even like Pippi very much, until I saw her in the context of children's literature and got some inkling of what it is that has made Astrid Lindgren the world's most translated children's author."
Three copies. One copy [PC/18/4/7/1] used for: “Autobiog. chat with special note on Astrid [Lindgren]”. TS, 3 leaves.
Another copy/version [PC/18/4/7/2] was used in trip to Sydney, 1996, (see also PC/20/2). TS, 3 leaves.
"In my next school it had started - the secret vice - I began doing translations for fun. No one must know, of course, one couldn't be labelled as a swot - but this covert activity, poetry mostly, continued until I left school."
" ... the children's books have been my chief joy as a translator. And among children's writers, none has given me more joy than Astrid Lindgren. I was not, incidentally, the translator of the Pippi Longstocking books - I didn't even like Pippi very much, until I saw her in the context of children's literature and got some inkling of what it is that has made Astrid Lindgren the world's most translated children's author."
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PC - Patricia Crampton Archive
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PC/18 - Memoirs
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PC/18/4 - Interviews, talks and articles (set aside for memoir)
- PC/18/4/7 - [Brief autobiographical piece]
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PC/18/4 - Interviews, talks and articles (set aside for memoir)
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PC/18 - Memoirs
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