Barbro Lindgren's absurdist book was published in 1969. Since then, the remarkable family has lived on opera and theater scenes, become animated films and most recently also a serial album by the cartoonist Sara Olausson.
SVT's literature magazine Babel took the help of Allan Linnér, former radio psychologist at Swedish Radio, to find out if a diagnosis can be made on the absurd family.
- This particular family I would not like to diagnose. It would be a way to diminish them and take the lead out of the imagination, he says.
See more about the strange family in the clip above and even more in Babel on Sunday, October 20.