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Apr 28, 2024 · TOVE JANSSON: Life, Art, Words, by Boel Westin. Translated by Silvester Mazzarella. Tove Jansson longed to be alone. As a child, she slept on a high shelf in her family’s home in Helsinki. Her ...
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May 2, 2024 · Famous worldwide as the creator of the Moomin stories, she balanced her talents as a painter, cartoonist, illustrator, and writer with an unusual lifestyle and an insistence on personal freedom. In this episode, Jacke talks to biographer Boel Westin ( Tove Jansson: Life, Art, Words) about the joyful and uncompromising approach that Tove Jansson ...
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May 11, 2024 · The word “Moomin” was never given a clear etymology, though Jansson traced their lineage to the ghost stories of her childhood. Published and received as children’s books, the Moomin series appealed equally to adults. Jansson never censored her stories out of a false sense of childhood’s innocence. Most children, she believed, “live ...
May 3, 2024 · The subject of Boel Westin's Tove Jansson: Life, Art, Words is a towering figure in 20th-century children's literature, best known for her enormously popular children's series featuring the hippoesque creatures known as Moomins and the other characters who populate their home in Moominvalley. Westin's detailed biography, translated from the ...
May 2, 2024 · She's been called Scandinavia's best loved author - but "author" only begins to describe Tove Jansson's genius. Famous worldwide as the creator of the Moomin stories, she balanced her talents as a painter, cartoonist, illustrator, and writer with an unusual lifestyle and an insistence on personal freedom.
5 days ago · Landén is a big fan of Tove Jansson and the Moomin books and has read them to his children, and he and his wife painted a giant Moomin mural in his son’s room. The author’s son Jack asleep in front of the Moomin wall painting. Landén says that his interest in Moomin products was awakened when he worked at the Stadmissionen second-hand shop.
May 6, 2024 · Completing the core trio in both the Moomin stories and Tove’s real life, the inspiration behind Moominmamma is said to have been Tove’s mother, Signe “Ham” Hammarsten. Ham Jansson with Tove as a baby. Ham was a master at fluctuating between her creative career and family. She was a successful illustrator and drawer.
