Rabén & Sjogren

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Rabén & Sjogren

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founding 1941
Seat Stockholm , Sweden
Branch publishing company
Website www.raben.se

The Swedish publishing house Rabén & Sjögren was founded in 1941 by Hans Rabén and Carl-Olof Sjögren and its program focused on books for children and young people. Since 1998 he has been part of the PA Norstedt och Söner publishing group.

Rabén & Sjögren achieved great success in particular as the publisher of Astrid Lindgren 's children's books . In the 1950s the author worked as an editor for children's books in the publishing house. There she met the illustrator Ilon Wikland in 1953 , with whom she subsequently worked successfully for decades.

Other authors of the publishing house were for example Enid Blyton and Jostein Gaarder .

Individual evidence

  1. History of Rabén & Sjögren ( Memento from July 20, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
  2. Roswitha Budeus-Budde: “This is what Astrid Lindgren's 'Ronja Robber's Daughter' should look like originally. But Ilon Wikland's draft was too delicate for the author. ”, In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , No. 24, 30./31. January 2016, p. 24. - Online: “Zu Zart.” SZ.de , January 29, 2016.
  3. ^ Enid Blyton and Jostein Gaarder in the publishing program