Tove Jansson
The latest on Moomins author Tove Jansson
Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley review – a fleeting tour of Tove Jansson’s beguiling world
Eerie and uplifting, the first Moomins video game for over a decade sends anti-authoritarian Snufkin on a mission to restore the nature of Moominvalley
Tove Jansson’s unseen Moomin sketches to go on show in Paris
Exhibition focuses on life and career of ‘brave and uncompromising’ Finnish artist and writer
Elena Ferrante and Marian Keyes among authors competing in Eurovision book contest
As musicians prepare for the Eurovision song contest on Saturday, entries for its literary counterpart have been announced
‘A masterpiece’: why Tove Jansson’s The Summer Book is as relevant as ever at 50
She might be better known as the creator of the Moomins but the Finnish author’s tender hymn to nature and tolerance is as relevant today as it was a half-century ago
Top 10s
Top 10 novels about things that go horribly wrong on islandsFrom John Fowles’s deep weirdness to Yōko Ogawa’s amnesiac dystopia, these books could put you off beach holidays for ever
Further reading
The best books about islands, from Wide Sargasso Sea to Dark MatterAuthor Kiran Millwood Hargrave picks her favourites, including Monique Roffey’s fabulist Caribbean and Madeline Miller’s witch banished by Zeus
Tove review – gentle biopic of the Moomins creator’s life and loves
Tove review – impassioned portrayal of Moomins creator lights up biopic
How Tove Jansson’s love of nature shaped the world of the Moomins
The Finnish artist’s work was hugely influenced by her passion for the great outdoors – in particular the tiny island of Klovharun
The Guardian view on the picture book: not just for children
Editorial: When a Nobel-prizewinning novelist turns to illustrated fiction, it’s time to question assumptions
Top 10s
Top 10 books about castawaysFrom the dark visions in Lord of the Flies or The Beach to the gentle wit of Tove Jansson, author Lucy Clarke picks her favourites tales of survival and isolation
On my radar
On my radar: Indira Varma's cultural highlightsThe actor on Tove Jansson’s adult fiction and eclectic French radio
My favourite book as a kid
My favourite book as a kid ... Moominland Midwinter by Tove JanssonI found the story of Moomintroll waking up alone in a world transformed deeply unsettling as a child - and still do, writes historian Tom Holland
What the Moomins creator can teach us about small worlds
Tove Jansson’s The Summer Book tells of people on a tiny island off Finland, living together with tact, grace and delightful attention to their surroundings
Books that made me
Elizabeth Gilbert: ‘Don’t we all wish we’d written Wolf Hall?’The bestselling author on her love of Tove Jansson, trying to read Ulysses and why we shouldn’t ‘book-shame’
Top 10s
Top 10 dinner parties in fictionFrom Arthurian feasts to awkward moments with Ian McEwan and mealtime at the Macbeths, these miniature dramas are literary staples. Tuck in
In Brief: In the House in the Dark of the Woods; Letters from Tove; Joe Gould’s Secret
Witchcraft in colonial America, the intimate letters of Tove Jansson, and a literary fraud unmasked
'It is a religion': how the world went mad for Moomins
Kate Winslet and Rosamund Pike are among the starry lineup in a new TV adaptation of the Moomins. Why do Tove Jansson’s hippo creatures have such enduring appeal?
Top 10s
Top 10 books about women and the seaFrom Virginia Woolf to Tove Jansson, author Charlotte Runcie chooses books telling maritime stories too rarely told
Wizards, Moomins and pirates: the magic and mystery of literary maps
From Moominland to the Marauder’s Map, writers Robert Macfarlane, Frances Hardinge and Harry Potter cartographer Miraphora Mina unfold their favourite maps
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