Tjorven

The name "Tjorven" comes from a popular Swedish family-show on television in the early 1960s. Based on a book by the Swedish author Astrid Lindgren, the story is about a number of characters living in the archipelago outside Stockholm. A central character is a rotund and sunny little girl nicknamed Tjorven.

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1960s: The 1960s, or The Sexy Sixties, in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1960 and 1969, but the expression has taken on a wider meaning over the past twenty years. The Sixties has come to refer to the complex of inter-related cultural and political events which occurred in approximatel...

Astrid Lindgren: Astrid Lindgren (November 14, 1907 – January 28, 2002) was a Swedish children's book author, whose many titles were translated into over 70 languages and published in more than 100 countries....

Stockholm: is the capital of Sweden, located on the east coast at the entrance of lake M?laren. With a population of 1,200,000 it is the largest city in Sweden....