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The name "'''Tjorven'''" is a fictional character created by [[Astrid Lindgren]]. It comes from a popular Swedish family show on television in the early 1960s. Based on a script by the Swedish author Astrid Lindgren, the story is about a number of characters living in the archipelago outside [[Stockholm]]. A central character is a plump and sunny little girl nicknamed Tjorven.<ref name="Lindgren2016">{{cite book|author=Astrid Lindgren|title=Seacrow Island|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wAvdCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT35|date=7 April 2016|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] - Children|isbn=978-0-19-274558-3|pages=35–}}</ref>

In the films of ''[[Life on Seacrow Island|Saltkråkan]]'' the character was portrayed by Swedish actress [[Maria Johansson]].

== Miscellaneous ==
In [[Stieg Larsson]]'s ''[[The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo]]'', 'Tjorven' appears also as the name for a cat character [[Mikael Blomkvist]] finds during his stay at a guest house.

Tjorven was also one of many nicknames for a woman who was accused of eating children in Romania.

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