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Supažindinimas
ILON (MAIRE-ILON PÄÄBO) WAS BORN ON 5TH FEBRUARY 1930 IN TARTU. HER FATHER WAS A CIVIL ENGINEER AND HER MOTHER VIDA PÄÄBO-JUSE GRADUATED PALLAS (HIGHER ART SCHOOL IN TARTU) AS A PAINTING- AND TEXTILE ARTIST. HER SCHOOL WAY STARTED IN TALLINN. IN 1939 HER PARENTS DIVORCED AND LITTLE ILON WAS SENT TO HER GRANDPARENTS WHO LIVED IN HAAPSALU. SO UNTIL 1944 ILON STUDIED AT HAAPSALUS 1. GRADE SCHOOL. HER FATHER STAYED IN TALLINN AND STARTED A NEW FAMILY. 1939 ILONS MOTHER WENT TO ITALY, AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS IN FLORENCE, TO STUDY MONUMENTAL AR T.
ILON AND HER GRANDPARENTS LIVED IN HAAPSALU, IN A LITTLE WOODEN HOUSE NEXT MARIA-MAGDALENA CHURCH (RÜÜTLI STREET 2), WHERE HER GRANDFATHER ALSO WORKED. IN THE AUTUMN OF 1944 ILONS GRANDMOTHER SENT THE 14 YEAR OLD GIRL WITH HER SCHOOLMATES FAMILY TO SWEDEN AWAY FROM THE WAR. ILONS FATHER AND HIS NEW FAMILY HAS ALSO ESCAPED TO SWEDEN. ILON STAYED IN STOCKHOLM WITH HER AUNT WHO WAS AN ARTIST.
ILONS STUDIES 1945-46 AKKE KUMLIENIS BOOK- AND ADVERTISEMENT ART SCHOOL, WHERE BOOK ILLUSTRATORS WERE TAUGHT. 1949 IN HIGHER APPLIED ART SCHOOL IN STOCKHOLM 1952-53 AND 1956 IN SIGNE BARTHIS PAINTING SCHOOL. ILON HAS ALSO STUDIED IN LONDON AND PARIS. IN1951 ILON MARRIED WITH SWEDE STIG WIKLAND AND BECAME ILON WIKLAND. THEY HAVE FOUR DAUGHTERS: HELEN, BIRGITTA, FREDRIKA AND ANNA.
IN 1987 ILON CAME BACK TO HER HOMELAND-ESTONIA. AT THAT TIME SHE COULD NOT GET FURTHER THAN TALLINN. HER CHILDHOOD TOWN HAAPSALU REACHED ILON NOT UNTIL 1989. FROM THAT TIME ON, SHE HAS VISITED HAAPSALU MANY TIMES. TODAY ILON WIKLAND LIVES IN STOCKHOLM.
ABOUT ILON WIKLANDS WORK.
ILON WIKLAND AND ASTRID LINDGREN WERE INTRODUCED WHEN ILON, 20 YEARS OLD, PUSHING A BABY BUGGY, WENT TO A PUBLISHING HOUSE TO SHOW HER DRAWINGS. LINDGREN LIKED ILONS WORKS AND SHE GAVE ONE OF HER SCRIPTS TO ILLUSTRATE. AS ILON RECALLES, IT WAS PART OF BULLERBY STORIES, BUT OFFICIAL SOURCES TELL US, THAT THEIR FIRST BOOK TOGETHER WAS "MIO MY SON" IN 1954, FOLLOWED BY "KARLSSON FROM THE ROOF" IN 1955 AND FIST BOOK OF BULLERBY STORIES IN 1957. LONG TIME TEAMWORK AND FRIENDSHIP BEGUN. IN 1995 WROTE ILON WITH ROSE LAGERCRANTZ A BOOK CALLED "LANGA, LANGA RESAN", ("LONG, LONG WAY"). IT TELLS US ABOUT ILONS CHILDHOOD IN HAAPSALU AND HER ELOPING TO SWEDEN. ILLUSTRATIONS ARE OF COURSE FROM ILON HERSELF. IT WAS TRANSLATED IN ESTONIAN ON 1996. IN 1997 ILON WROTE AND DREW A NEW CHILDRENS BOOK NAMED "SAMMELI, EPP OCH JAG" ("SAMMELI, EPP AND I"). IN THAT BOOK WE CAN TAKE PART OF ILONS FIRST SCHOOL DAY. IN ESTONIAN WAS IT PUBLISHED IN 1998. ILON WIKLAND HAS EARNED MANY PRIZES FOR HER WORK. ILON HAVE HAD ALSO A PERSONAL EXHIBITION OF HER WORKS.
THE AUTHOR OF MANY CHILDRENS BOOKS: ASTRID LINDGREN
ASTRID LINDGREN WAS BORN ON 14.TH OF NOVEMBER IN 1907 AS DAUGHTER OF FARMER SAMUEL AUGUST ERICSSON AND HIS WIFE HANNA ERICSSON IN SMÅLANDS COUNTY, NEAR VIMMERBY IN SWEDEN. SHE WAS THE SECOND CHILD OF FOUR AND THE OLDEST DAUGHTER. HER FAMILY AND ADVENTURES OF CHILDHOOD ARE DESCRIBED IN HER AUTOBIOGRAPHY CALLED "LAND GONE FROM HORIZON". AFTER GRADUATING FROM SCHOOL ON 1924, ASTRID PRACTICED HER WRITING SKILLS AT THE VIMMERBY TIDNINGEN.
ON 4.TH OF DECEMBER IN 1926 SHE GAVE BIRTH TO HER SON LARS, WHO LIVED HIS FIRST YEARS AT HIS STEPPARENTS IN COPENHAGEN.
IN 1928 SHE WENT TO WORK IN "ROYAL AUTOCLUB" ("MOTORMÄNNENS RIKSFÖRBUND") AS A SECRETARY, WHERE SHE MET HER FUTURE HUSBAND STURE LINDGREN. THEY WERE MARRIED IN 1931 AND AFTER THAT, ASTRID TOOK HER SON LARS WITH THEM AND THEY WERE A FAMILY NOW.
IN 1934 KARIN, ASTRIDS DAUGHTER AND BIRTH MOTHER OF PIPPILOTTA DELICATESSA WINDOWSHADE MACKRELMINT EFRAIMS DAUGHTER LONGSTOCKING, WAS BORN. PIPPI TALES CAME ALIVE WHEN KARIN WAS SICK AND ASTRID WAS SITTING ON HER BEDSIDE, TELLING STORIES OF A VERY STRONG RED HEADED GIRL. THE FIRST BOOK OF PIPPI TALES WERE PUBLISHED IN 1945. NEXT THREE YEARS BROUGHT THREE MORE STORIES OF PIPPI. ALTOGETHER THERE ARE 11 STORIES OF THAT FANTASTIC KINDHEARTED GIRL AND HER HORSE, HER MONKEY CALLED MR. NILSSON AND HER FRIENDS TOMMY AND ANNIKA.
ASTRID LINDGREN DIED IN 2002. SHE GAVE LIVES TO MANY SWEET CHARACTERS. TODAYS CHILDREN LIKE THEM AS MUCH AS DID THEIR MOTHERS AND FATHERS. MOST OF THE CHARACTERS ARE DRAWN BY ESTONIAN BORN ARTIST ILON WIKLAND.
ON SEPTEMBER 9TH IN 1989 ASTRID LINDGREN AND ILLUSTRATOR OF HER BOOKS, ARTIST ILON WIKLAND VISITED HAAPSALU.
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