Tove Jansson, Author, trans. from the Swedish by Sophie Hannah. Drawn & Quarterly/Enfant $16.95 (20p) ISBN 978-1-897299-95-1 Some treasured picture books from yesteryear are back to tempt new ...

To this list, we can add books by the Swedish-speaking Finnish artist Tove Jansson. Her novel “The Summer Book” (1972) followed a woman watching over her tempestuous granddaughter, and “Sun ...

Our love for Tove Jansson’s stories goes beyond adoring ... exhibitions and films worldwide for decades after the very first book was published in 1945, as “unlimited by ideas about how ...

Tove Jansson’s beloved stories, which turn 80 this year, are not cute: they are angry tales of apocalypse and breakdown.

Finnish artist, illustrator and writer Tove Jansson is best known for her illustrated book series The Moomins. And while we might remember the Moomins books for their dreamy pictures and gentle ...

Tove Jansson's 1972 novel "The Summer Book" wasn't a memoir, but it was a memory piece of sorts - its slender narrative of largely unspoken grief and healing imbued with, and enriched by ...

“Tove was constantly transforming ... Focusing the dialogue on Jansson’s books for young people, Shapton argued that “if you can write for children, you can write anything.

A Florida retirement community might be an unexpected setting for a novel written by a Finnish Swedish children’s book author. But in 1976, Tove Jansson, who is best-known for her whimsical ...

I'm a big fan of superficially cute things that turn out to be "angry tales of apocalypse," as Frances Wilson puts it. Hers ...