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Tove Jansson c. 1970 Born Tove Marika Jansson (1914-08-09) 9 August 1914 Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire Died 27 June 2001 (2001-06-27) (aged 86) Helsinki, Finland Occupation Artist, writer Language Swedish Nationality Finnish Notable works The Moomins The Summer Book Notable awards Hans Christian Andersen Award 1966 Order of the Smile 1975 Pro Finlandia 1976 Partner Tuulikki ...
Swedish: Too-ticki) – a friend of the family, craftswoman and practical philosopher. Has her first appearance in the novel Moominland Midwinter and returns in the short stories of Tales from Moominvalley and in comics. The character and the name are modelled after Tuulikki Pietilä, Tove Jansson's life partner. [30]
Friends of Tove Jansson and many old Moomin enthusiasts have stressed that the newer animations banalize the original and philosophical Moomin world to harmless family entertainment. An antithesis for the Disneyland -like Moomin World theme park is the Moomin Museum of Tampere, which exhibits the original illustrations and hand-made Moomin ...
Finn Family Moomintroll (original Swedish title Trollkarlens hatt, ‘The Magician's Hat’; US edition The Happy Moomins) is the third in the series of Tove Jansson's Moomins books, published in Swedish in 1948 and translated to English in 1950. It owes its title in translation to the fact that it was the first Moomin book to be published in ...
Tove Jansson’s Moomin characters may be internationally famous, but a new show in Paris reveals a lesser-known side to the Finnish artist who created them. Little-known life of Moomins creator ...
The comic strip was born, when Charles Sutton, the leader of the Associated Newspapers syndicate contacted Tove Jansson. Jannson's first Moomin books Comet in Moominland (1946) and Finn Family Moomintroll (1948) had already been translated to English and had been successful in the United Kingdom.
Vivica Sophia Jansson (born 1962 in Helsinki [1]) is the daughter of cartoonist Lars Jansson and the niece of the famous Finnish writer and painter Tove Jansson.Jansson has worked as a Spanish language teacher, [2] creative/artistic director, chairman, and majority shareholder of Oy Moomin Characters, Ltd, [3] [4] [5] and provided direct oversight together with her father for the 1990 Moomin ...
Little My (original Swedish: Lilla My, literally: "Little Mu") is a character in the Moomin series of books by Tove Jansson. The character first appeared in the fourth book, The Exploits of Moominpappa (1950). She is a small, determined and fiercely independent Mymble. Little My is brash, aggressive, mischievous and disrespectful, but can also ...