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Maria Gripe

Swedish author

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contribution to children’s literature

  • Lewis Carroll: Through the Looking-Glass
    In children’s literature: National and modern literature

    …children, has been developed by Maria Gripe, whose Hugo and Josephine trilogy may become classic; Gunnel Linde’s Tacka vet jag Skorstensgränd (1959; Eng. trans., Chimney-Top Lane, 1965); and Anna Lisa Warnlöf, writing under the pseudonym of “Claque,” whose two series about Pella and Fredrika show an intuitive understanding of lonely…

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