Astrid Lindgren Tare da halinta kamar Pippi Longstocking, watakila tana ɗaya daga cikin fitattun marubutan da suka mamaye masu karatu a duniya.
Gaskiyar ita ce, Sweden ta samar da fiye da rabonta na fitattun marubutan duniya a cikin shekaru 100 da suka gabata. A karshen karni na 20, adabin Sweden ya mamaye Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940) da August Strindberg (1849-1912), kuma har yanzu ana jin tasirinsu.
Strindberg's The Red Room (Roda rummet), 1879, da Lagerlöf's Gösta Berling saga (Gösta Berlings Saga) daga 1891, ana ɗaukarsu littattafan Sweden na farko na zamani.
Pippi Longstocking da dogon jerin wasu haruffa da ba za'a manta dasu ba sun sanya Lindgren ta zama ɗayan mafi kyawun duniya, ƙaunatattun marubutan yara. A cikin shekaru goman da suka gabata ko makamancin haka, fitattun fitattun wallafe-wallafen Sweden sun kasance cikin nau'in laifi, tare da Wallander Henning Mankell a cikin jerin Millennium na Larsson da Trilogy sun sami matsayin mafi kyawun duniya.
Dukansu sun sha jin daɗin talabijin da masu sauraren fim, a cikin shahararren Yaren mutanen Sweden da maimaita harshen Turanci.
Haɗin tsakanin Sweden da ingantaccen wallafe-wallafe yana kiyaye sabo ne ta kyautar Nobel na Adabi, wanda Cibiyar Nazarin ta Sweden ta bayar. Kyautar, wacce Sarki Carlos XVI Gustav ke bayarwa a kowace shekara a Stockholm, ita ce mafi daraja a adabi.