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Tove Marika Jansson ( Swedish pronunciation: [ˈtuːve ˈjɑːnsːon] ⓘ; 9 August 1914 – 27 June 2001) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish author, novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author. Brought up by artistic parents, Jansson studied art from 1930 to 1938 in Helsinki, Stockholm, and Paris. She held her first solo art exhibition in 1943.
Nobody is left outside in Tove Jansson’s world. Through her unique touch, she captures a universal duality: darkness mixed with humour. Tove Jansson is an artist who changes the world, for those who are ready for it.
Tove Jansson is one of the most accomplished and honored Finnish artists of all times. An artist, writer, and designer, she is also the creator of Moomins.
Read Tove Jansson's biography and learn more about her childhood, family, art and career, always led by the motto "Work and Love".
The British author Philip Pullman has called Tove Jansson a writer of genius who should have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. In the 1960s, Tove Jansson turned her attention to writing for adults, beginning with Sculptor’s Daughter (1968).
Jun 23, 2024 · Tove Jansson was a Finnish artist and writer-illustrator of children’s books (in Swedish). In her books, she created the fantastic self-contained world of Moomintrolls, popular especially in northern and central Europe, although translations in more than 30 languages have provided a worldwide.
Dec 14, 2016 · The daughter of Finnish sculptor Viktor Jansson and his Swedish artist wife Signe Hammarsten-Jansson, known as Ham, Tove Jansson grew up in an environment where art, work and life were...
Oct 4, 2023 · Europe was on the brink of World War II when Tove Jansson, the Scandinavian writer and artist, sat down to sketch her first “Moomin” story, about a snout-nosed troll living in a magical land...
Tove Jansson was born in Helsinki on August 9, 1914, the first-born child of Finnish sculptor Viktor Jansson and Swedish graphic artist and illustrator Signe Hammarsten-Jansson. Jansson had two younger brothers, Per Olov (b.1920) and Lars (b.1924).
Tove Jansson is born on August 9th, the eldest child of an artistic family. 1935. Tove studies art both in Finland and abroad and she starts making Moomintroll paintings. Her first Moomin-like character is later seen in the magazine Garm in 1943. 1945. Söderström & Co publishes the first Moomin story – The Moomins and the Great Flood – in Swedish.
