Tove Jansson

...in Finland and it is due out next summer. The hippopotamus-like creatures were invented by Finnish author and illustrator Tove Jansson and became a huge hit on children's TV in the UK in the 80s. A message on Bjork's website said: "Bjork...

In this article: Bjork, Moomins, Sjon, Finland, and UK

...7.99 (224pp) (free p&p) from the Independent Bookshop: 08430 600 030 The True Deceiver, By Tove Jansson Finnish writer and artist, Tove Jansson, is best known in this country as the creator of the Moomin stories, but her novels for...

In this article: Moomin

...century but with a good rump of Victorians and nothing, so far as I can see, in translation beyond the Bible and, delightfully, Tove Jansson's Moomin tales, this personal selection might keep you occupied for a year but might not stretch your...

In this article: Howards End, Edith Sitwell, Don Quixote, Literature, King's College, London, and Moomin

It is, in contrast to the 1990s series, widely believed to be by far the most faithful TV adaptation of Tove Jansson's stories, and much closer to her vision. Tove herself had a great deal of involvement during the series' production and...

In this article: The Moomins, DVD, Anne Wood, UK, Moomintroll, Se-ma-for, Lars Jansson, CITV, and Richard Murdoch

...och den stora oversvamningen), the Immanuel-Kant-Moomin is still perceptible. The name "Moomin" comes from Tove Jansson's uncle, Einar Hammarsten: when she was studying in Stockholm and living with her Swedish relations, her uncle tried to...

In this article: Tove Marika Jansson, Moomins, Finn Family Moomintroll, Comet in Moominland, Moomintroll, Lars Jansson, The Exploits of Moominpappa, Moominpappa, and Moominmamma

...books already are sold." The artistic head and chairman of Moomin Characters, she is the niece of Finnish author and illustrator Tove Jansson, whose creation, the Moomintrolls, soon turn 65. Moomins -- whose naive hero Moomintroll was the...

In this article: Moomin, The Moomins, Moomintroll, Winnie-the-Pooh, Disney, Japan, and Moominvalley

...and 1962, Hammarsten-Jansson designed over 200 stamps. The couple had three children in total: Tove Jansson, Lars Jansson and Per Olof Jansson. Born to artistic parents, the children grew up in a Bohemian lifestyle, and all became artists...

In this article: Moomin, Per Olof Jansson, Lars Jansson, Paris, Stockholm University, Tuulikki Pietila, Bank of Finland, and Viktor Jansson

...pages, $19.95 Moomin Book Four is the latest installment in Drawn and Quarterly's collected edition of the comic strip which Tove Jansson created in the 1950s for the syndicate British Associated News. It offers readers a chance to visit a...

In this article: Moomin, Moominpappa, Moomintroll, Moomins, Moominvalley, Moominmamma, Moomin, Thought experiment, and Snufkin

...begs the question, "Was anything besides the medium intended for the thumb-sucking set? " Nowhere is this contrast more evident than in Tove Jansson's internationally popular comic Moomin. Having enjoyed almost fifty years of publishing and...

In this article: Moomin, Harry Potter, Shrek, Drawn and Quarterly, Thought experiment, Mymble, Snufkin, and Moomintroll

...and loaded; the novel reads like looking through clear water and seeing, suddenly, the depth. As Philip Pullman so succinctly puts it, Tove Jansson was a genius." - Ali Smith, The Guardian "(I)t manages to make you feel good as well as...

In this article: Summer Book, The Guardian, and Los Angeles Times