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DATE: Thursday, October 13, 1994 TAG: 9410130652
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A12 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
DATELINE: STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN LENGTH: Short : 40 lines
The creator of Pippi Longstocking and three champions of human rights and education shared the ``alternative Nobel'' prize Wednesday.
The Right Livelihood Award is known as the ``alternative Nobel'' because it honors work not covered by the Nobel categories that has also improved people's lives.
The prize, traditionally awarded at the same time as the Nobels, was founded by Jakob von Uexkull. The money comes from the sale of a stamp collection he owned.
An honorary Right Livelihood Award was given to Astrid Lindgren, the 87-year-old author of dozens of children's books, film scripts and novels.
Among her celebrated works was a series based on the character Pippi Longstocking, a freckled, pig-tailed girl whose mischievous ways have entertained kids since 1945.
Lindgren won for her ``lifelong dedication to the rights of children'' and ``commitment to justice, non-violence and understanding of minorities,'' von Uexkull said.
The Right Livelihood Award's main $250,000 award was given to two champions of the rights of ethnic minorities - Ken Saro-Wiwa of Nigeria's minority Ogoni people and Hanumappa Reddy Sudarshan of the Vivekananda Girijana Karyana Kendra organization in India.
The third recipient was the Service Volunteered for All group in Trinidad and Tobago, an educational and development organization working with children, teenagers and their parents in Trinidad and elsewhere in the Caribbean.
The prize will be presented on Dec. 9 in Stockholm.
KEYWORDS: NOBEL PRIZE by CNB