Pippi Longstocking around the world

Pippi Longstocking is the most famous of Astrid Lindgren's characters worldwide. Stories about Pippi have been translated into 79 languages, and the books have sold over 70 million copies (2024).

Kronprinsessan Victoria överlämnar boken "Känner du Pippi Långstrump?", översatt till nigeriansk pidgin, till rektorn Umar Muhammed Makusidi på LEA-förskolan i Jabi.

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Pippi's 80th language

Pippi Longstocking in Nigerian Pidgin is the most recent translation, meaning that the books about Pippi Longstocking have now been translated into 80 languages - just in time for her 80th anniversary! Among the other recently added Pippi languages are Yiddish, Scottish Gaelic, Silesian (a Slavic language spoken in the Silesia region of southwestern Poland and northeastern Czechia), Alsatian (a German dialect spoken in Alsace, a province in northeastern France) and Karelian. In the picture, Swedish Crown Princess Victoria is seen presenting the book "Do You Know Pippi Longstocking?", translated into Nigerian Pidgin, to Principal Umar Muhammed Makusidi at the LEA preschool in Jabi, Nigeria. Photo: Jonas Ekströmer/TT

This is what Pippi Longstocking is called in different languages

Albanian: Pipi Çorapëgjata

Arabic: جنان ذات الجورب الطويل (Jinān dhāt al-jawrab al-ṭawīl)

Bulgarian: Пипи Дългото Чорапче (Pipi Dalgoto Chorapche)

Chinese: 长袜子皮皮 (Changwazi Pipi)

Czech: Pipi Dlouhá punčocha

Danish: Pippi Langstrømpe

Dutch: Pippi Langkous

English: Pippi Longstocking

Esperanto: Pipi Ŝtrumpolonga

Finnish: Peppi Pitkätossu

French: Fifi Brindacier

Georgian: პეპი გრძელი წინდა (Pepi Grdzeli Tsinda)

German: Pippi Langstrumpf

Greek: Πίπη Φακιδομύτη (Pipi Fakidomýti)

Hebrew: בילבי בת-גרב (Bilbee Bat-Gerev)

Hungarian: Harisnyás Pippi

Icelandic: Lína langsokkur

Indonesian: Pippi Si Kaus Panjang

Italian: Pippi Calzelunghe

Japanese: 長靴下のピッピ (Nagakutsushita no Pippi)

Kurdish: پیپیی گوێره‌ویدرێژ (Pippi ya Goredirêj)

Norwegian: Pippi Langstrømpe

Persian: پی‌پی جوراب‌بلند (Pipi Jurâb-boland)

Polish: Pippi Pończoszanka

Russian: Пеппи Длинныйчулок (Peppi Dlinnyjtjulok)

Spanish: Pippi Calzaslargas

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Pippi in Sweden

All the Pippi books in her native Sweden were illustrated by Danish illustrator Ingrid Vang Nyman (1916-1959). The image shows the picture book Känner du Pippi Långstrump? (Do you know Pippi Longstocking?) from 1947.

Pippi plündert den weihnachtsbaum liten bild omslag

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Pippi in Germany

This is what Pippi looks like in Germany, The image shows the cover of Pippi plündert den Weihnachtsbaum (Pippi's After-Christmas Party), from the German publisher Oetinger.