From now on I'll be intensely focused on everything even remotely similar to the year 1963!
Yup, as expected, only a few days after I posted this I read about a 50th anniversary!
This year it's exactly 50 years since Emil in Lönneberga saw the day of light. He's an incredibly well known and ditto loved character in a series of children's books written by Astrid Lindgren, who also wrote the books about Pippi Långstrump (Longstocking).
Emil, and her other characters, are extremely popular here, they make up a cultural frame of reference, shared by every single person living in Sweden. Generation after generation of children meet them in books and films that never get old. Year after year, Astrid Lindgren's books occupy all the top ranks on the list of most borrowed books in Swedish public libraries.
Did I say Astrid Lindgren is popular here?
Here is Emil, a boy who's always up to mischief:
Emil and his little sister Ida. Origianl drawings from the books.
Movie Emil and Ida: