Tove Jansson

Tuula Karjalainen

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. She was already admired as a painter, cartoonist and illustrator, when she went go on to write a series of classic novels and short stories. Her mother tongue was Swedish and all of her books were written originally in Swedish.