Tove Jansson
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Tove Marika Jansson was a Finland-Swedish author, novelist and comic strip author, painter and illustrator. Brought up by artistic parents, her mother an illustrator and postage stamp designer, her fa
c. 1970
Jansson in 1923
Jansson in 1956 with Moomintroll dolls made by Atelier Fauni
Cover of Garm magazine, October 1944, lampooning Adolf Hitler as "self-important and comic"
The Summer Book
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The Summer Book is a novel written by the Finland Swedish author Tove Jansson in 1972. It tells of a family silently mourning a mother's death while spending a summer on a tiny island in the Gulf of F
Tove Jansson
…with the semi-autobiographical Bildhuggarens dotter (The Sculptor's Daughter) in 1968, Jansson wrote six novels, including the admired Sommarboken (The Summer Book), and five short story collections for adults. Tove Jansson was born in Helsinki, in the Grand Duchy of Finland, an autonomous state within the Russian…
Sommarboken
Sophia Jansson 01
Signe Hammarsten Jansson