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May 16, 2024 · Available 23 May 2024. Treasures from Moominvalley – The Collector’s Guide to Tove Jansson’s Moomins will be released on 23 May in Moomin Shop Esplanadi in Helsinki and the global Moomin Shop online. Buy the book. The richly illustrated book Treasures from Moominvalley is the definitive guide for all collectors of Moomin products.
Sep 7, 2022 · A unique video documentary sheds new light on the complicated process behind this classic of Nordic children’s fiction. The Book about Moomin, Mymble and Little My is regarded as Tove Jansson’s international breakthrough and made the Moomins known to the larger public in her home country Finland when it was published in 1952.
Oct 21, 2014 · The Woman Who Borrowed Memories is the first extensive selection of Jansson’s stories to appear in English. Many of the stories collected here are pure Jansson, touching on island solitude and the dangerous pull of the artistic in “The Squirrel” the equanimity of the only inhabitant of a remote island is thrown by a visitor, in “The ...
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Tove Jansson (1914–2001) was born in Helsinki into Finland’s Swedish-speaking minority. Her father was a sculptor and her mother a graphic designer and illustrator. Winters were spent in the family’s art-filled studio and summers in a fisherman’s cottage in the Pellinge archipelago, a setting that would later figure in Jansson’s writing for adults and chil
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Oct 21, 2014 · Twenty-six spare, slyly off-kilter stories collected from the life work of Swedish-speaking Jansson, who wrote 11 works of adult fiction (The Summer Book, 1972, etc.) as well as a series of children’s books (Moominpappa’s Memoirs, 1994, etc.) before her death in 2001.
Nov 11, 2014 · November 11, 2014. Eccentric and precise, The Woman Who Borrowed Memories (NYRB Classics) assembles twenty six stories from Finnish artist and writer Tove Jansson, presenting a mix of unique landscapes, eerie tensions, and an old world perfectly preserved. While Jansson was best known for her tubby Moomin cartoons, her fiction for adults ...
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The Woman Who Borrowed Memories is the first extensive selection of Jansson’s stories to appear in English. Many of the stories collected here are pure Jansson, touching on island solitude and the dangerous pull of the artistic impulse: in “The Squirrel” the equanimity of the only inhabitant of a remote island is thrown by a visitor, in ...
