Tove Jansson Life, Art, Words: The Authorised BiographyThe Finnish-Swedish writer and artist Tove Jansson achieved worldwide fame as the creator of the Moomin stories, written between 1945 and 1970 and still in print in more than twenty languages. However, the Moomins were only a part of her prodigious output. Already admired in Nordic art circles as a painter, cartoonist and illustrator, she would go on to write a series of classic novels and short stories. She remains Scandinavia's best loved author. |
Contents
A Free Young Lady | |
The Painter at the Ateneum | |
The Moomins Grow | |
Painter and Author | |
Tooticky | |
The Enchanter | |
A Need for Expression | |
SpringCleaning the Painter | |
The Letter | |
The Invisible | |
The Travelling Painter | |
Longing for Italy | |
5 A Mens | |
Scenarios of | |
Just Paint | |
The Studio in the Tower | |
6 Moomin Tales and Monumental Paintings | |
The Creation Story | |
The Time of the Apocalypse | |
Tarzan and Atos | |
Moomin Passion | |
The Golden Butterfly | |
Thingumy al Fresco | |
9 Trolls and Humans | |
The Queen of Surprises | |
The Wild 1950s | |
Private Changes | |
Jansson the Moominist | |
13 The Woman Who Fell in Love with an Island | |
To the Island Again | |
Mamma al Secco | |
Medals and Revisions | |
Moomins Daughter | |
A Summer of Writing | |
A New Family | |
The Listener Herself | |
Sun Cities | |
The Most Dangerous Journey | |
Writing Oneself | |
Work and Love | |
Messages | |
End matter | |
Tove Janssons Published Works | |