A Heidi é Suiça! (para quem não sabia :P como eu ...)

Johanna (Joan) Spyri, was born as Johanna Heusser
in a small village called Hirzel, some 25 km [15 miles] southeast of Zurich,
on June 12, 1827, as the daughter of a country doctor.
She died in Zurich on July 7, 1901.




Johanna Spyri's story of Heidi, the girl from the Alps, became a world-wide success story already towards the end of the 19th century and children do still like it today - as a book, as a radio play and as a movie. Heidi is by far the most popular work of Swiss literature and has been translated from German into 50 languages, been filmed more than a dozen times, and more than 50 million copies of Heidi books have been sold world-wide (Switzerland's population is only 7 million ...).