长袜子皮皮

《长袜子皮皮》（瑞典语：Pippi Långstrump）是瑞典女作家阿斯特丽德·林格伦（瑞典语：Astrid Lindgren）从1945年开始所著的一部童话故事系列的名字。内容讲述一个奇怪的小女孩“长袜子皮皮”的冒故事。

《长袜子皮皮》写作的缘起是：作者林格伦给患病的7岁女儿卡琳讲故事。皮皮的名字是卡琳顺口说出来的，这个火红头发、力大无穷、喜欢开玩笑、喜欢冒险的小女孩不仅有穿一只黑袜子、一只棕袜子的奇怪嗜好，而且有一个冗长奇怪的全名：“皮皮露达·维多利亚·鲁尔加迪娅·克鲁斯蒙达·埃弗拉伊姆·长袜子”。

1944年，林格伦在女儿10岁的时候把皮皮的故事写了出来作为赠给她的生日礼物。1945年林格伦将它稍作修改，参加拉米和舍格伦出版公司举办的儿童书籍比赛，获得一等奖。书一出版就获得巨大成功。关于皮皮的书共有三本，多次再版，成为瑞典有史以来儿童书籍中最畅销的。目前该书已被译成64多种语言，总发行量超过1000万册。

登场角色

长袜子皮皮

本名长袜·皮皮洛塔·维库图亚利亚·罗戈地纳·薄荷·艾福姆之女；一人住在乱糟糟别墅，大约11岁，母亲已经死亡，爸爸在一次海难中失踪，不过在第二集曾经回来过，长袜子皮皮有很多钱，非常慷慨，在瑞典是无人不知的大人物，力气异常的大，一次可举起一匹马，很爱说谎，每次说谎后都感到自责，行事作风奇怪，但都让人哑口无言又让人不得不信服的道理，是本书的主角。

佚事

1971年日本动画导演宫崎骏与高畑勋、小田部羊一一同跳槽到A Production时，计划要将《长袜子皮皮》改编成动画，但因阿斯特丽德·林格伦不允许授权而中断此企划。当时宫崎骏前往瑞典为题材所做的取景，则用在之后1989年发行的动画电影《魔女宅急便》中。

改编

长袜子皮皮 (1969电视剧)

长袜子皮皮的新冒险(1988电影)

Pippi Longstocking (Swedish: Pippi Långstrump) is the fictional main character in a series of children's books by Swedish author Astrid Lindgren (1907–2002). Pippi was named by Lindgren's daughter Karin, who asked her mother for a get-well story when she was off school.

Pippi is red-haired, freckled, unconventional and superhumanly strong – able to lift her horse one-handed. She is playful and unpredictable. She often makes fun of unreasonable adults, especially if they are pompous and condescending. Her anger comes out in extreme cases, such as when a man mistreats his horse. Pippi, like Peter Pan, does not want to grow up. She is the daughter of a buccaneer captain and has adventure stories to tell about that, too. Her four best friends are her horse and monkey, and the neighbours' children, Tommy and Annika.

After being rejected by Bonnier Publishers in 1944, Lindgren's first manuscript was accepted by Rabén and Sjögren. The three Pippi chapter books (Pippi Longstocking, Pippi Goes on Board, and Pippi in the South Seas) were published from 1945 to 1948, followed by three short stories and a number of picture book adaptations. They have been translated into 80 languages as of May 2025 and made into several films and television series.

Character

Pippi Longstocking is a nine-year-old girl. At the start of the first novel, she moves into Villa Villekulla: the house she shares with her monkey, named Mr. Nilsson, and her horse that is not named in the novels but called Lilla Gubben (Little Old Man) in the movies. Pippi soon befriends the two children living next door, Tommy and Annika Settergren. With her suitcase of gold coins, Pippi maintains an independent lifestyle without her parents: her mother died soon after her birth; her father, Captain Ephraim Longstocking, goes missing at sea, ultimately turning up as king of a South Sea island. Despite periodic attempts by village authorities to make her conform to cultural expectations of what a child's life should be, Pippi happily lives free from social conventions. According to Eva-Maria Metcalf, Pippi "loves her freckles and her tattered clothes; she makes not the slightest attempt to suppress her wild imagination, or to adopt good manners." Pippi is literate and has a penchant for storytelling, which often takes the form of tall tales.

When discussing Pippi, Astrid Lindgren explained that "Pippi represents my own childish longing for a person who has power but does not abuse it." Although she is the self-proclaimed "strongest girl in the world", Pippi often uses nonviolence to solve conflicts, via guile, creativity with facts, and misdirection, such as to protect other children from bullying or excuse her chronic truancy. Pippi has been variously described by literary critics as "warm-hearted", compassionate, kind, clever, generous, playful, and witty to the point of besting adult characters in conversation. Laura Hoffeld wrote that while Pippi's "naturalness entails selfishness, ignorance, and a marked propensity to lie", the character "is simultaneously generous, quick and wise, and true to herself and others."

The inspiration for her father, Captain Ephraim Longstocking, came from the real life Carl Emil Pettersson, a Swedish sailor who became king of Tabar Island in Papua New Guinea after he was shipwrecked in 1904. He married the local king's daughter, and they had nine children.

One famous albeit incorrectly assigned quote by Pippi, summing up her character, is "I have never tried that before, so I think I should definitely be able to do that."