Short answers, pulled from the story.
Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren entered the world on the 14th of November 1907 in Näs, a small village near Vimmerby in Småland. Her father Samuel August Ericsson worked as a farmer while her mother Johanna Sofia Jonsson managed the household.
Lindgren left her hometown due to a pregnancy outside of marriage that occurred during her employment at the Vimmerby Tidning newspaper. The resulting social shame forced her to move to Stockholm where she learned secretarial skills to support herself and her son Lars who was born in 1926.
Between 1985 and 1989 Lindgren collaborated with veterinarian Kristina Forslund to write articles about factory farming practices which led to new legislation known as Lex Lindgren. This law presented to Lindgren on her eightieth birthday stood as the strictest animal welfare legislation globally at that time.
On the 3rd of March 1976 Lindgren published this satirical allegory in Expressen newspaper to attack Sweden's government regarding taxation policies that pushed her marginal tax rate to 102 percent. The controversy contributed to the Social Democratic government losing power for the first time in forty-four years during that year's general election.
Publisher Rabén & Sjögren established this annual literary prize in 1967 to mark Lindgren's sixtieth birthday and it carries forty thousand Swedish kronor. The award recognizes Swedish-language children's writers every November and continues to honor her legacy in literature.