Tove Jansson, Cover for a comic book, 1957. Moomin Museum, Tampere Art Museum Moominvalley Collection. Jari Kuusenaho/Tampere Art Museum/MoominCharacters Tove Jansson, Comic strip Moomin on the ...
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A Bold Finnish Artist Brought These Precious Little Hippopotamus-Like Trolls to the World 80 Years Ago
In 1945, a book about a family of trolls forced to find a new home—in a dark unknown forest with a terrifying serpent—after theirs is washed away, was quietly published in Finland to little fanfare.
After saunas and Nokia cellphones, it may very well be Finland's most successful export item ever: the Moomin universe, peopled by a group of bulky, white creatures resembling hippos. A century after ...
When Tove Jansson wrote her first Moomin story, Europe was at war, forcing millions of people to flee their homes, and the threatened atomic bomb was about to become reality. Feeling too desperate to ...
Bookended by scenes of its heroine dancing with abandon, “Tove” dramatizes a significant decade in the life and career of Tove Jansson, the Finnish artist and writer known for her Moomin characters.
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