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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Tove_JanssonTove Jansson - Wikipedia

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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 .

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3. tovejansson.comTove Jansson • Author and artist who created the Moomins

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   Learn about the life and work of Tove Jansson, the Finnish creator of the Moomin characters and other books, art and music. Explore her biography, gallery, books, people and places related to her legacy.

4. www.moomin.com › en › tove-janssonTove Jansson: the wonderful artist behind the Moomins

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   Learn about the life and work of Tove Jansson, the Finnish-Swedish author and illustrator of the Moomin books. Discover her family, islands, travels, studio, career and legacy as a writer and visual artist.

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6. www.nytimes.com › 2023/10/04 › artsThe Moomins Live in the World Tove Jansson Wanted - The New ...

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   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...

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7. tovejansson.com › biographyTove Jansson • Biography • Tovejansson.com

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   Learn about the life and work of Tove Jansson, the Finnish-Swedish author and artist best known for creating the Moomin characters. Explore her childhood, family, art and career, and her motto "Work and Love".

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   Where did Tove Jansson live?

   • In 1942 Tove Jansson moved away from the family home to a studio of her own in Helsinki. And two years later, she made a more definitive move to Ullanlinnankatu 1 – the turret studio where she was to live and work for the rest of her life.

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   What did Tove Jansson do for a living?

   • Public works and other decorative paintings was an important part of Tove Jansson's art. Fresco at the Helsinki City Hall, murals at Aurora Children's Hospital in Helsinki and numerous murals in schools and kindergartens as well as the altarpiece at Teuva church are part of her most significant pieces of public art.

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   Who is Tove Jansson?

   • Tove Jansson was born in Helsinki, in the Grand Duchy of Finland, an autonomous state ruled by the Russian Empire at the time. Her family, part of the Swedish-speaking minority of Finland, was an artistic one: her father, Viktor Jansson, was a sculptor, and her mother, Signe Hammarsten-Jansson, was a Swedish-born graphic designer and illustrator.

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   Why did Tove Jansson leave Moomin?

   • Yet Tove Jansson felt increasingly constrained by the relentlessness of newspaper production and in 1959 handed over the task of the daily strip to her younger brother Lars Jansson, a skilled author and illustrator in his own right. Lars would successfully continue the Moomin cartoon strip until 1975.

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9. tovejansson.com › tovepediaTove Jansson • Tovepedia • Tovejansson.com

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   Learn about the life and work of Tove Jansson, the Finnish-Swedish author and illustrator of the Moomin books and other classics. Explore her art, cartoons, novels and legacy at Tovepedia.

10. www.britannica.com › biography › Tove-JanssonTove Jansson | Moomin creator, children’s books, illustrator

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    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.