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Tove Marika Jansson () ( 9 August 1914 – 27 June 2001 ) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author.
Tove Jansson was born in Helsinki, Finland, which was then a part of the Grand Duchy of Finland.
After Moominvalley in November Tove Jansson stopped writing about Moomins and started writing for adults.
Besides the Moomin novels and short stories, Tove Jansson also wrote and illustrated four original and highly popular picture books: The Book about Moomin, Mymble and Little My ( 1952 ), Who will Comfort Toffle?
Although she became known first and foremost as an author, Tove Jansson considered her careers as author and painter to be of equal importance.
Tove Jansson worked as illustrator and cartoonist for the Swedish-language satirical magazine Garm from the 1930s to 1953.
In 1952, after Comet in Moominland and Finn Family Moomintroll had been translated into English, a British publisher asked if Tove Jansson would be interested in drawing comic strips about the Moomins.
Tove Jansson drew 21 long Moomin stories from 1954 to 1959, writing them at first by herself and then with her brother Lars Jansson.
The series was published in book form in Swedish, and books 1 to 6 have been published in English, Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip.
Euro gold and silver commemorative coins ( Finland )# 2004 coinage | Tove Jansson and Finnish Children's Culture commemorative coin
In 1966 Tove Jansson won the Hans Christian Andersen Award for her contributions to children's literature.
Tove Jansson was selected as the main motif in a recent Finnish commemorative coin, the € 10 Tove Jansson and Finnish Children's Culture commemorative coin, minted in 2004.
The obverse depicts a combination of Tove Jansson portrait with several objects: the skyline, an artist's palette, a crescent and a sailing boat.
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Most of the Moomin books by Finnish author Tove Jansson were novels, but several Moomin picture books were also published between 1952 and 1980, like Who Will Comfort Toffle?
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Mumintroll author Tove Jansson received the award in 1966
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Moominmamma ( Muminmamman ) is a character in the Moomin series of books by Finnish author Tove Jansson.
Moominpappa ( Muminpappan, i. e. " The Moomin Dad ")-is a character in the Moomin series of books by Finnish author Tove Jansson.
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Other artists who have found inspiration in Tolkien's works include Catherine Karina Chmiel, Inger Edelfeldt, Anke Eißmann, Roger Garland, Michael Hague, Tove Jansson ( of Moomin fame, illustrator of Swedish and Finnish translations of The Hobbit ), Paul Raymond Gregory, Tim Kirk, Angus McBride, Kay Miner, Billy Mosig, Colleen Doran, Jenny Dolfen and Matěj Čadil.
He is best known for his soundtrack to the Finnish-Japanese anime series Moomin, which is based on the Moomin books by illustrator and writer Tove Jansson.
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Tove's siblings also became artists: Per Olov Jansson became a photographer and Lars Jansson an author and cartoonist.
Jansson is principally known as the author of the Moomin books – stories for children that involve Jansson's creations, the Moomins.
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Lars Jansson ( 8 September 1926 – 31 July 2000 ) was a Finnish author and cartoonist.
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Her family, part of the Swedish-speaking ( Swedish: finlandssvensk ) minority of Finland, was an artistic one: her father Viktor Jansson was a sculptor and her mother Signe Hammarsten-Jansson was a graphic designer and illustrator.
A native of Helsinki, Jansson was the son of the sculptor, Viktor Jansson, and the illustrator, Signe Hammarsten-Jansson.
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