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Tove Jansson

The latest on Moomins author Tove Jansson

March 2024

  • Cute and curative … Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley

    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

June 2023

  • Scenography for the ballet Marionettes Gouache, 1951.

    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

May 2023

  • Eurovision book contest logo.

    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

September 2022

  • Tove Jansson and her partner Tuulikki Pietilä mooring up their boat.

    ‘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

June 2022

  • Anna Karina and Michael Caine in the 1968 film of The Magus.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 novels about things that go horribly wrong on islands

    From John Fowles’s deep weirdness to Yōko Ogawa’s amnesiac dystopia, these books could put you off beach holidays for ever

August 2021

  • Geraldine McCaughrean’s Where the World Ends follows a group of boys abandoned on a sea stack off St Kilda (pictured).

    Further reading
    The best books about islands, from Wide Sargasso Sea to Dark Matter

    Author Kiran Millwood Hargrave picks her favourites, including Monique Roffey’s fabulist Caribbean and Madeline Miller’s witch banished by Zeus

July 2021

  • Alma Pöysti in Tove

    Tove review – gentle biopic of the Moomins creator’s life and loves

  • Alma Pöysti in Tove (Blue Finch Film Releasing) (1)

    Tove review – impassioned portrayal of Moomins creator lights up biopic

June 2021

  • Tove Jansson and Tuulikki Pietilä on the island of Klovharun.

    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

March 2021

  • Nobel prize laureate Olga Tokarczuk.

    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

February 2021

  • Suraj Sharma as Pi Patel, in the 2013 film of Yann Martel’s Life of Pi.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about castaways

    From 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

September 2020

  • Indira Varma.

    On my radar
    On my radar: Indira Varma's cultural highlights

    The actor on Tove Jansson’s adult fiction and eclectic French radio

May 2020

  • The many characters of the Moomin books.

    My favourite book as a kid
    My favourite book as a kid ... Moominland Midwinter by Tove Jansson

    I found the story of Moomintroll waking up alone in a world transformed deeply unsettling as a child - and still do, writes historian Tom Holland

April 2020

  • Tove Jansen and the Moomins in 1992.

    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

March 2020

  • Author Elizabeth Gilbert<br>TORONTO, ON - August 15: Author Elizabeth Gilbert speaks about life after Eat, Pray, Love, the book which brought her fame and fortune. Gilbert was in Toronto, August 15, 2013.

    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’

December 2019

  • One of those evenings …Banquo’s ghost appears at the Macbeths’ feast at the Odeon Theatre de l’Europe in Paris.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 dinner parties in fiction

    From Arthurian feasts to awkward moments with Ian McEwan and mealtime at the Macbeths, these miniature dramas are literary staples. Tuck in

September 2019

  • white middle aged male smiling slightly with neatly cropped beard and glasses wearing open-necked shirt turning to fact camera against a dark background

    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

April 2019

  • Moomins

    '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?

February 2019

  • Picture By Jim Wileman - Author Raynor Winn, pictured at home in Polruan, Cornwall, with her husband Moth, and their dog Monty.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about women and the sea

    From Virginia Woolf to Tove Jansson, author Charlotte Runcie chooses books telling maritime stories too rarely told

September 2018

  • A version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s map by Monro Orr in 1934

    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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