Two Swedish famous people

Alfred Nobel by Kamillia Guenouni

Born in Stokholm in 1833, Alfred Nobel moved at the age of 9 with his family to St Petersburg where his father set up his firm of naval mines. After its failure, he went to America with his father.  There, he worked hard on the marketing of the nitroglycerin which was discovered in 1847 by Sobrero and manufacture of explosives.

In 1867, he created dynamite. In 1871, his factories KemaNObel and AkzoNobel opened. After a serious explosion in one of them which caused the death of his brother Emile,  Alfred preferred devoteing his time to nitroglycerin which is less dangerous!

At 40 years old, he moved to Paris but he left the capital quickly to move to Sanremo in Italy. There, he died on December the 10^th in 1896. He is now buried in the cemetery north of Stokholm.

He had left his testament in which he decided to give his fortune not to his heirs but to the creation of the Nobel Prize. It will reward the benefactors of humanity in the following areas: peace; literature, chemistry ; medicine and physics. Some people say he had refused to honor  mathematics to avoid rewarding the mathematician Gosta Mittag who had bitten his girlfriend.

Astrid Lindgren by Manon Ferrand

Astrid Lindgren, born in 1907, was a Swedish secretary who became an autor for children. Astrid had a daughter named Karin who was sick. Indeed, she had pneumony.

When Karin was young, Astrid told  her stories. Astrid decided to put all her stories since 1941 in books and to publish them.  Her most famous character is FIFI BRINDACIER, Pippi langstrump in Swedish. She wrote other books like the story of Karlsson pa taket in three books. It's the story of a young boy who has a friend, Karlsson who isn't real. This story had a good success in Russia.

Astrid received the Nils Holgersson prize in 1950 and the Nobel alternative Prize in 1994. In 1967, the Astrid Lindgren prize was created. It  rewards an author of books for children every year.

In 2002, Astrid died, she was 94 years old. For her death, a new prize was created, the commmemorative Astrid Lindgren Prize.

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