* 1914 – Tove Jansson, Finnish author ( d. 2001 )

** Tove Jansson, Finnish author ( b. 1914 )

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.

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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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.

* Tove Jansson, author, illustrator

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.

Torvalds was running introductory computer laboratory exercises for students and instructed the course attendants to send him an e-mail as a test, to which Tove responded with an e-mail asking for a date.

In the early 1980s, Murdoch provided the English narration for the Polish animated version of The Moomins, from the classic series of books by Tove Jansson.

In June 2012, West recorded an English narration of The Book about Moomin, Mymble and Little My by Tove Jansson for an interactive audiobook developed by Spinfy and published by Sort of Books.

Rising in Northamptonshire about a mile north of Greatworth, it flows for about north and east of the town of Towcester ( meaning ' camp on the Tove ') near Bury Mount before meeting the Ouse south-east of Cosgrove just north of Milton Keynes.

The Old English name of Towcester, which is named for the River Tove, is Tófe-ceaster, suggesting ( since ceaster comes from the Latin castra, meaning " camp ") that the Old English name for the Tove was some form of Tófe.

The publisher also has an imprint for children called Enfant, with which they have published the Moomin works of Tove Jansson and Pippi Longstocking comics by Astrid Lindgren and Ingrid Vang Nyman.

* The much-criticised Tove Fergo, who failed to get reelected to parliament ( though that is not a requirement for a minister ) was replaced as Church Minister.

Dakin has cited Tove Jansson's Moomin strip cartoons and novels as an influence for Abe and the optimistic melancholy present in his work.

Chairwoman Tove Lifvendahl proudly wore an " I love Bush " shirt after George W. Bush's election in 2000, although she was quick to criticise him for the steel tariffs he later imposed.

There was once a cornmill on the River Tove, dating from 1086, which Robert Maudit granted to Roger the miller of Cosgrove and his son Robert for life in 1211.

* Winner of the American-Scandinavian Foundation Translation Prize, for Early Spring by Tove Ditlevsen ( 1984 ).

Moomin World (, ) is the Moomin Theme Park especially for children, based on the Moomin books by Tove Jansson.

Other European productions included a stop motion-animated series of Tove Jansson's The Moomins ( from 1979, often referred to as " The Fuzzy Felt Moomins "), produced by Film Polski and Jupiter Films.

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 stop her pilfering food by telling her that a " Moomintroll " lived in the kitchen closet and breathed cold air down people's necks.

There are multiple allusions to stories by Lewis Carroll, such as a club the main character walks into, referred to as the Slithy Tove, which is a quote from Carroll's poem, the Jabberwocky

Tove (, ) is a Scandinavian given name which derives from the Old Norse name Tófa, a shortening of Thorfrithr, " beautiful Thor " or " peace of Thor.

It is separated from the county of Northamptonshire by the River Tove.

Prime examples include Bamboo House of Dolls ( 1973 ) with Birte Tove, Great Escape from a Women's Prison, and Men Behind the Sun ( 1988 ).

* The re-politicization of minority protection: six cases from the FCNM monitoring process, ECMI Study # 7 ( 2012 ) by Tove H. Malloy

In 2002, Tove Lifvendahl became the first Youth League chairman to be elected to the national board of the party directly after resigning from the Moderate Youth League.

A recent example, from 1954, is by Tove Jansson.

From further up the road at the base of Reecastle Crag a more direct line is possible, or the climb can be made from Watendlath itself, first ascending High Tove via the zig-zags.