From 1953 to 1960, the late Finnish artist Jansson drew a comic strip about her creation Moomin for the London Evening News . Though the strip was an enormous success around the world, this is the ...

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This charming new edition of "Comet in Moominland" by Tove Jansson—the first book in Jansson’s classic Moomin series—is gorgeous. The new hardcover from Drawn & Quarterly closely resembles its ...

This summer, Brooklynites can step into a lush, fantastical world without leaving the borough as the Brooklyn Public Library welcomes “Tove Jansson and the Moomins: The Door is Always Open,” the first ...

Tove Jansson’s illustrations for a rare 1966 edition of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” are melancholy, complex and occasionally scary. Credit... Supported by By Sadie Stein Sadie Stein is an ...

Author Tove Jansson finished "The Summer Book" while visiting New Orleans in 1972. The novel is about a young girl who spends a summer on a small island off the coast of Finland. When Tove Jansson ...

Tove Jansson, trans. from the Swedish by Thomas Teal and Silvester Mazzarella. New York Review Books, $16.95 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-1-59017-766-2 Like Jansson (The True Deceiver) herself, many of ...

You can’t help but think Tove Jansson might have preferred a quieter sort of exhibition. Solitude came naturally to the Finnish cartoonist and writer, less so the celebrity delivered by her globally ...

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A monumental exhibition celebrating the artist and author Tove Jansson opens at Helsinki Art Museum on October 25 as part of a series of events held around the country, to mark the 80th anniversary of ...

The Scottish author on a masterclass from Toni Morrison, the brilliance of Simone de Beauvoir and the trim novel by Tove Jansson containing everything that really matters ...

When Tove Jansson arrived in New Orleans in 1972 for an extended visit, few people knew that a celebrity was in their midst. Her stay helped shape another surprise — namely, one of the best books ...