Who is the author of Carlson? Who wrote a fairy tale about Carlson?

As a child, most of us enjoyed watching and reviewing a cartoon about a cheerful little man with a motor that lived on the roof, and read out the adventures of the brave Pippi Longstocking and the funny prankster Emil from Lenneberg. Who is the author of Carlson and many other familiar and beloved literary heroes, both children and adults?

The Swedish storyteller

Astrid Lindgren, known to all readers of our country as Astrid Lindgren, the world-famous Swedish children's writer created not only Carlson, but also many other famous and beloved literary characters. She was born in the distant 1907 in the provincial Swedish town of Wimmerby (Wimmerby), in the farming family of Samuel Auguste Eriksson and his wife Hannah. The author of the fairy tale Carlson, who lives on the roof, considered her childhood happy, as it was filled with adventures and games, and work on the farm. About the special relationship in the parents' family, filled with love and care, the writer described in her only book for adults - "Samuel Augustus of Sevedstorp and Hannah from Hulta."

After graduation, Astrid begins his career as a proofreader and freelance journalist at the local Wimmerby Tidningen, where he specializes in describing various festive ceremonies and celebrations. At the age of 18, without being married, she became pregnant. This prompted the girl to move to Stockholm, where, at the end of the course, she received the specialty of a secretary. In 1926, she gave birth to Lars's son, but because of financial difficulties, Astrid had to transfer the baby to the foster home of the Danes. In 1928, the future author of Carlson receives the post of secretary of the Royal Autoclub, where she meets Sture Lindgren, who later became her husband. After the wedding, which took place in the spring of 1931, the writer managed to return her son Lars and leave work, dedicating herself to her husband, raising children and home.

How did the children's books come about?

However, Lindgren did not only deal with home and children. At times she took up secretarial work, and also wrote small tales and travel descriptions for various family editions and calendars. The first book for children was "Pippi Longstocking", the idea of which prompted Astrid daughter Karin, but the publishers were wary of this product and it was not immediately decided to publish it. Greater success at that time brought the writer a work "Britt-Marie pours out her soul," which won a second prize and the possibility of publication at the "Raben and Shegren" publishing house in 1944.

Lindgren's next novel, Calle Blumquist, which was written in 1946, receives the first prize at a literary contest .

The first fairy tale, written by a writer ("Mio, my Mio!"), Was published in 1954. But in 1955 the author of the fairy tale "Kid and Carlson, who lives on the roof" gave life to a cheerful little man with a motor.

Astrid Lindgren for her long creative life has written more than a hundred works for children and only one - for adults.

How and when did Carlson appear?

The very Swedish storyteller considers the author of this character to be his daughter Karin. During the illness, she asked her mother to tell about Mr. Lily Quarsten, who flies to the children, who are at home alone. On the basis of this story, Lindgren created a fairy tale about Nils Carlson visiting a boy whose sister died. Combining these two characters, the author of "The Kid and Carlson who lives on the roof" created in 1955 such an amusing hero, our beloved cheerful and prankster with a propeller on his back.

Continuation of the favorite story - "Carlson, who lives on the roof, again flew in" was published seven years after the first part, and in 1968 the final part of the trilogy was released - "Carlson, who lives on the roof, mischievous again."

Unlike the book Pippi Longstocking, in which the writer portrayed Pippi's cheerful and optimistic image, Carlson's author shows how charming, but extremely infantile, self-centered and boastful a man with a motor that lives on the roof of an ordinary Swedish high-rise building.

Do not like it in Sweden!

It is unlikely that Astrid Lindgren knew that in her native for her and her characters in Sweden, Carlson is treated differently to our beloved. For Swedes, this character is rather negative than positive. This is facilitated by his behavior: lies, rude, brags, deceives, steals buns, confuses a little boy, and even has bad habits, as it is written in the text of the book: "he smokes a pipe."

The Americans went even further and, accusing the fat man with the motor in destructive behavior, in 2003 excluded the fairy tale about him from the school curriculum. Thus, American junior schoolchildren do not know anything about this fairy-tale character, as well as who wrote Carlson. Author A. Lindgren and the works created by her are not studied and are not read in the framework of the regular course of schooling.

Our Russian Carlson

In 1957, the first edition of the book of the Swedish storyteller "Kid and Carlson who lives on the roof" was published in the USSR in the translation of Liliana Zinovievna Lungina. It is this first translation that is considered to be classical today. Subsequently, the work was translated by Eduard Uspensky and Lyudmila Braude, but critics did not give them high marks. Later, Astrid Lindgren herself, the author of Carlson, admitted that she also owes much to the popularity of other books in the USSR in the wonderful translations of Liliana Lungina.

However, the real popularity with Karlsson in the Soviet Union came after the appearance on the screen in 1968 and 1970 of the animated films "Carlson Returns" and "The Kid and Carlson", drawn by Yuri Butyrin and Anatoly Savchenko.

"Karlssonomania" on the radio, in the theater and cinema

In the whole space of the USSR in the second half of the 20th century, the radio show and the play of the Satire Theater with the same name - "The Kid and Carlson who lives on the roof" - were very popular. First, in 1958 the directors of Lvov and Litvinov created a radio version, and 13 years later Mikaelian and V. Pluchek produced a film-performance. The cast was really stellar: Carlson - Spartak Mishulin, Freken Bock - Tatiana Peltzer, Kid - Misha Protopin, Andrei Mironov and Y. Sokovnin played rogues.

It is not known whether the Swedish storyteller Lindgren, the author of "The Kid and Carlson who lives on the roof", saw a Soviet theater production and how she reacted to the film shot in 1974 by her work of a Swedish film director Ulle Hellbuma. It was this famous director who created 17 films based on the writer's works for thirty years of the last century.

In Sweden, Astrid Lindgren was not only a living legend, but also a symbol of the country. This storyteller left the world in 2002, but her memory lives in her books translated into many languages and published in more than one hundred countries.