Tove jansson biography of rory
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Tove Jansson was born in Helsinki, Finland, in Best known as the author and illustrator of the Moomin Books, she is one of the most successful childrens..
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By Paula Bardell-Hedleyon •
By Boel Westin, Silvester Mazzarella (Translator)
Tove Jansson, author of the Moomin stories and one of the great idiosyncratic talents of the 20th century, must surely have found her ideal biographer in Boel Westin.
With previously published works on Lewis Carroll and August Strindberg, this Professor of Literature at the University of Stockholm knew Jansson personally and wrote a PhD dissertation on her ideologies and philosophies.
A Swedish-speaking Finn, Jansson was both novelist and artist, but became so well known for creating her bevy of eccentric “beings” (most closely resembling terrestrial manatees or curvaceous hippos) that people tend to be unaware she was a respected painter, cartoonist and illustrator in her homeland long before becoming a world-famous children’s author.
Westin does much to rectify this oversight, with some of her most captivating chapters devoted to Tove’s time as a humbl
