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	Tove Jansson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tove Jansson was born and died in Helsinki, Finland, and was the daughter of the sculptor Viktor Jansson and the illustrator Signe Hammarsten-Jansson.
		Jansson said that she had designed the Moomins in her youth: after she lost a philosophical quarrel about Immanuel Kant with one of her brothers, she drew "the ugliest creature imaginable" on the wall of their WC and wrote under it "Kant".
		The name of the creature comes from Tove Jansson's uncle: 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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tove_Jansson (1192 words)

	Nordic Culture > Tove Jansson, Finnish author and creator of the Moomin trolls - Scandinavica.com
		Tove soon wanted to be an artist herself, and so she did at the age of fifteen: young Jansson moved to Stockholm in 1930 to study painting and drawing at the Konstfack, and followed with drawing studies in 1933 at the Helsinki Art Society and in 1938 at the Ecole des Beaux Arts of Paris.
		Tove Jansson is mainly known for her famous Moomintrolls, but she was also an artist who painted and wrote adult fiction and short stories.
		Tove Jansson's famous creation, the Moomins, are in many ways a self-portait of the artist, her life and her world.
	www.scandinavica.com /culture/famous/jansson.htm (1207 words)

	FAST-FIN-1 Finnish Institutions Research Papers
		Tove Marika Jansson was born in Helsinki, Finland, on the 9th of August in 1914.
		Tove Jansson and her Moomins are a central theme of Finnish culture.
		Muumisisarukset Tove ja Lars Jansson [The Moomin siblings Tove and Lars Jansson].
	www.uta.fi /FAST/FIN/CULT/sr-moom.html (4362 words)

	Tove Jansson
		Tove Jansson drew the comic strip Moomin for the Evening News, London, from 1953 to 1959, and then was succeeded by her brother Lars Jansson, who had helped Jansson to translate the original texts into English.
		From 1932 Jansson participated in several exhibitions in Finland and abroad; her first private exhibition was in 1943 in Helsinki.
		Jansson's second exhibition, in 1946, at the Bäcksbacka gallery, was a commercial success, and her works received critical acclaim.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /tjansson.htm (1710 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Obituaries \| Tove Jansson
		Jansson was born into an unusual background in the Finnish capital, Helsinki.
		Tove was the first of three children, and her brothers, Per Olov and Lars, became artists.
		The family were close, and Tove did not leave home until the age of 28, apart from a brief spell in Stockholm studying art after she left school at 15.
	www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,3604,514757,00.html (863 words)

	The Moomintroll Home Page - About the author, Tove Jansson
		Tove Jansson is known as the creator of the Moomintroll books and a gifted artist.
		She was born in Helsinki, Finland on August 9, 1914 to a sculptor, Viktor Jansson and a Swedish-born cartoonist, Singne Hammersten Jansson.
		"Jansson, who has never married, spends part of the year in Helsinki and the rest on a remote and beautiful island in the Gulf of Finland where her family has gone in the summer since she was a child.
	www.io.com /~fazia/Moomin2.html (522 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| Lights on a string
		Tove Jansson will always be remembered for the Moomins, but her novels for adults are no less magical.
		Jansson, who died two years ago, was born in Helsinki in 1914 to a sculptor father and an artist mother.
		But Jansson's brilliance is to create a narrative that seems, at least, to have no forward motion, to exist in lit moments, gleaming dark moments, like lights on a string, each chapter its own beautifully constructed, random-seeming, complete story.
	books.guardian.co.uk /reviews/generalfiction/0,6121,996302,00.html (1238 words)

	The Moomin World and its creator — Virtual Finland
		Somewhere at the top of any list would be Tove Jansson (1914-2001) of Finland, creator of the world of the moomintrolls and their friends, a world which is both strange and a little dangerous, while being pleasant and familiar at the same time.
		Tove Jansson was an artist long before she began to write in the 1940s; in that respect she was on the receiving end of both nature and nurture from her parents, both of whom were well-known artists in Finland.
		And that is Tove Jansson's message, never obvious but always present in her Moomin stories: show consideration for your fellow beings and understanding for those who are different, that is, sympathy and empathy.
	virtual.finland.fi /finfo/english/moomieng.html (1357 words)

	Tove Jansson and moomin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In her auto-biographical novel "The Sculptor's Daughter" Tove Jansson recreates the both bourgeois and bohemian atmosphere of her secure yet adventurous childhood, which was so important for the books she was to write.
		The Tove Jansson Prize was established in 2002 by Svenska folkskolans vänner, Moomin Characters and Schildts Publishers.
		In 1953 Tove Jansson was contacted by Associated Press and her Moomin comics were published in the Evening News.
	www.schildts.fi /mumin/tove_eng.html (517 words)

	Selections from The Annotated Hobbit - Official Publisher's site for The Lord of the Rings published by Houghton ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Illustration by Tove Jansson for the 1962 Swedish and 1973 Finnish editions.
		Tove Jansson (1914-2001) was a native of Finland, born to a Swedish-speaking family.
		On illustrating Tolkien, Jansson wrote to Mikael Ahlström of the Fin-nish Tolkien Society in 1992 that "for me, illustrating The Hobbit was an adventure," and one wishes that she would have elaborated further.
	www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com /features/lordoftheringstrilogy/hobbit/2_5.shtml (232 words)

	Tove Jansson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		On August 9, 1914, Tove Jansson was born in Helsinki.
		Tove was born in a middle-class family and experienced both security and adventure.
		Jansson went on to publish four picture books and received many awards for her work, one being the Hans Christian Andersen medal in 1966.
	www.childrensliteraturenetwork.org /brthpage/08aug/8-9jansson.html (106 words)

	Nordic Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the work of Tove Jansson, longing for a mother seems to be a central impulse, she removes from it any sense of absurdity or weakness.
		If Tove Jansson had been born fifty or so years later, she would have ended up becoming a spokesperson for gay rights, now she was spared that.
		Tove Jansson and Astrid Lindgren are both very dear to their readers, but in different ways.
	www.nordic-literature.org /2003/english/articles/102.htm (1207 words)

	LA Weekly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		I DISCOVERED TOVE JANSSON AT AN AGE WHEN other kids were gathering their dignity about them and wouldn't have been caught dead with a book whose main character, Moomintroll, looked more than anything like a hippopotamus with a funny tail.
		In this environment Tove became an artist almost as a matter of course; writing was "mainly for myself," she said.
		Jansson once said, by way of explaining her exodus from Moominland, that Moomintroll had reached puberty (and, presumably, needed his privacy).
	www.laweekly.com /ink/02/24/wls-jackson.php (1348 words)

	Matt & Andrej Koymasky - Famous GLTB - Tove Jansson
		In her auto-biographical novel "The Sculptor's Daughter" Tove recreates the both bourgeois and bohemian atmosphere of her secure yet adventurous childhood, which was so important for the books she was to write.
		In this Moomin-world Tove Jansson has created an autonomous universe of her own, a world both enchanting and inspiring for young and old.
		Tove Jansson has received much recognition for her work as an author: among others the the Nils Holgersson plaquette 1953, the Hans Christian Andersen medal 1966, the Mårbacka Prize 1977, the Prize of the Swedish Academy 1972, the Pro Finlandia medal 1976, The American-Scandinavian Foundations price 1996.
	andrejkoymasky.com /liv/fam/bioj1/jans3.html (419 words)

	drawn and quarterly
		Jansson is revered around the world as one of the foremost children’s authors of the twentieth century for her illustrated chapter books regarding the magical worlds of her creation, the Moomins.
		MOOMIN: THE COMPLETE TOVE JANSSON COMIC STRIP; BOOK ONE is the first volume of Drawn & Quarterly publishing plan to reprint the entire strip drawn by Jansson before she handed over the reins to her brother Lars in 1960.
		Jansson's art is pared down and precise, yet able to compose beautiful portraits of ambling creatures in fields of flowers or rock-strewn beaches that recall Jansson’s Nordic roots.
	www.drawnandquarterly.com /newsList.php?item=a43cd3af3e53ad (441 words)

	Tove Jansson - Penguin UK Authors - Penguin UK
		Tove Jansson (1914 – 2001), was born in 1914 in Helingsfors, Finland.
		Tove studied painting in Finland, Sweden and France and later worked as a book illustrator, a designer and strip cartoonist, as well as being involved in theatre décor and making frescoes in public places.
		In 1966 Tove Jansson was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Medal – an international award for the best children’s book of the year.
	www.penguin.co.uk /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000045133,00.html (394 words)

	Tove Jansson biography
		Tove Marika Jansson, artist, children's book writer and illustrator, was born in Helsinki, Finland.
		Her father, Viktor Jansson, was a sculptor, and his mother, Signe Hammarten-Jansson, was a graphic artist.
		Jansson first began contributing her art to magazines when she was 15.
	mimi.essortment.com /tovejanssonbio_rwpd.htm (431 words)

	Tove Jansson — Virtual Finland
		The troll received his first taste of international success in 1954, when the London Evening Standard began to publish a strip cartoon entitled Moomin, which was drawn by Tove Jansson and her brother Lars Jansson.
		All this began with Tove Jansson’s amusingly illustrated Moomin books, originally written in Swedish, of which a total of 13 appeared between 1945 and 1977 and which have been translated into more than 30 languages.
		Tove Jansson’s parents were artists whose bohemian life in their Helsinki studio and summers spent on a small island in the Gulf of Finland form the background to the Moomin books.
	virtual.finland.fi /finfo/english/jansson.html (316 words)

	CD Baby: TOVE JANSSON, MIKA POHJOLA, ERNA TAURO, JOHANNA GRUSSNER: Moomin Voices - Muminröster
		Although Jansson's works have gained worldwide popularity among children, the Moomintrolls are also much appreciated by adults due to a universal message, which can be felt on numerous levels and depths.
		When Tove Jansson passed away in June 2001, composer and pianist Mika Pohjola devoted one year on studies in the nearly forgotten songbook, and produced Moomin Voices in early 2003.
		These original works by the Finnish master author, Tove Jansson, are delightfully recreated in a light jazzy medium and are charming, light and decadent for all ages.
	www.cdbaby.com /cd/moominvoices?cdbaby=88d07b1ee62fe2044ddf19ecfe7b9610 (1038 words)

	Comic creator: Tove Jansson
		Born into a creative family, Tove Jansson studied art in Helsinki, Stockholm and Paris.
		From 1958 on, Tove was assisted on the strip by her brother Lars Jansson, first on the script, then also on the artwork.
		Tove, who was also a novelist and illustrator of children's books, took charge of the Moomin's licensing.
	www.lambiek.net /artists/j/jansson_t.htm (126 words)

	MILE HIGH COMICS presents THE BEAT at COMICON.com: Moomins to D&Q (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In 1954 Jansson was commissioned to create a Moomin comics strip for adults; the English-language strip was launched in the London Evening News that same year.
		Tove began collaborating on the Moomin strip with her brother Lars, who started drawing the strip in 1969.
		MOOMIN: THE COMPLETE TOVE JANSSON COMIC STRIP; BOOK ONE is the first volume of Drawn & Quarterly publishing plan to reprint the entire strip drawn by Jansson before she handed over the reigns to her brother Lars in 1960.
	www.comicon.com /thebeat/2006/01/moomins_to_dq.html (645 words)

	The Mediadrome - News - Tove Jansson Dies
		Finnish author and artist Tove Jansson has died at the age of 86.
		Although she went to school in the capital, Jansson spent most of her formative years at an island home that her father loved.
		His adventurous past set an example to his son, Moomintroll, who tried to emulate his father with the tools at hand and was more often disappointed than not.
	www.themediadrome.com /content/news/june_2001/tove_jansson.htm (536 words)

	Finland celebrates 90th Anniversary of Tove Jansson
		A new Moomin stamp and a silver collector’s coin, “Tove Jansson and Children’s Culture” was issued on August 9.
		In August Finland is celebrating the 90th Anniversary of beloved artist and author Tove Jansson (1914-2001), the creator of Moomin.
		To honor Tove Jansson, the Finnish Ministry of Finance, Mint of Finland issued a silver collector’s coin, “Tove Jansson and Children's Culture” on August 9.
	www.finland.org /netcomm/news/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=26609&intIGID=25&LAN=EN&Thread=&intThreadPosition=2 (230 words)

	Amazon.ca: Tales from Moominvalley: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Jansson's stories are charming little gems, full of wonderful moments and images, thought-provoking and touching.
		Her characters are often the lonely, the lost, and the troubled, and she makes you feel for them and understand them, without ever becoming ridiculous or sentimental.
		Jansson's wonderful insight into people, her spare, deft prose, and her brilliant imagination make a great combination.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0374474133 (699 words)

	TomFolio.com: by Tove Jansson
		Jansson, Tove THE EXPLOITS OF MOOMINPAPPA Publisher: Henry Z. Walck New York 1966.
		Jansson, Tove; Portch, Elizabeth (translator), Illustrated by: Jansson, Tove (illustrator) Finn Family Moomintroll Publisher: Puffin UK 1981.
		Jansson, Tove : Illustrated by Tove Jansson MOOMINVALLEY IN NOVEMBER Publisher: Puffin London, England 1975.
	www.tomfolio.com /SearchAuthorTitle.asp?Aut=Tove_Jansson (526 words)

	CULTURE & LITERATURE: Finland and the World of Kids (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The denizens of Moomin Valley are already classics Tove Jansson began using a sketch of the Moomin creature as her signature on anti-fascist cartoons in the 1930s.
		The Moomin books contain a great deal of intelligent humour, but Jansson's great gift is her ability to deal with fear and angst.
		Her stories always have a happy ending, but the reader is allowed to experience fear and anxiety, which are intrinsic to life.
	www.publiscan.fi /bl12e-7.htm (559 words)

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