“Daydreams, monsters and all the horrible symbols of the subconscious that stimulate me … I wonder if the nursery and the chamber of horrors are as far apart as people think.”
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Tove Jansson
Tove Marika Jansson was a Finland-Swedish author, novelist and comic strip author, painter and illustrator. Brought up by artistic parents, her mother an illustrator and postage stamp designer, her father a sculptor, Jansson studied art from 1930 to 1938 in Helsinki, Stockholm, and Paris. She held her first solo art exhibition in 1943. Over the same period, she penned short stories and articles fo…
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culture · Finland-Swedish writer and illustrator (1914–2001) · painter · writer · illustrator · children's writer · cartoonist · caricaturist · exlibrist · author · draftsperson · muralist · also Tove Jansson, Tove Marika Jansson, Jansson
Born 9 August 1914 · Died 27 June 2001 · Q102071
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2026· 3 entries
The Guardian: The Summer Book review – Glenn Close powers sweet-natured take on Tove Jansson’s grief classic
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The Guardian: ‘We’re remixing her library for a new medium’: the video games capturing the happy-sad spirit of Tove Jansson’s Moomins
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2025· 2 entries
Creative Review: New Tove Jansson show explores the timeless world of the Moomins
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The Guardian: Travels in Moominland: summer in Tove Jansson’s Finland
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2024· 5 entries
Hyperallergic: Tove Jansson Found Refuge in Play
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Vogue: Tove Jansson, Beloved Creator of the Moomins, Painted the World as She Wanted to See It
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The Guardian: Tove Jansson murals, with hidden Moomins, seen for first time in Helsinki show
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Artnet: Tove Jansson’s Beloved Moomins Turn 80 With a Major Exhibition in Helsinki
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The Guardian: Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley review – a fleeting tour of Tove Jansson’s beguiling world
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2023· 1 entry
The Guardian: Tove Jansson’s unseen Moomin sketches to go on show in Paris
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2022· 1 entry
The Guardian: ‘A masterpiece’: why Tove Jansson’s The Summer Book is as relevant as ever at 50
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2021· 2 entries
Publishers Weekly: Books by Tove Jansson and Complete Book Reviews
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The Guardian: How Tove Jansson’s love of nature shaped the world of the Moomins
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2020· 1 entry
The Guardian: My favourite book as a kid ... Moominland Midwinter by Tove Jansson
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2019· 1 entry
The journalist Rhianna Pratchett wrote an article about the impact Jansson had had on her father, the fantasy author Terry Pratchett; he called Jansson one of the greatest children's writers ever, and credited her writin
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2016· 1 entry
Awarded Will Eisner Hall of Fame (2016).
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2014· 3 entries
Jansson was featured on a Finnish stamp set
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The City of Helsinki honoured Jansson by renaming a park near her childhood home in Katajanokka "Tove Jansson's Park"
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Was again featured on a commemorative coin, this time of €20, becoming the only person other than the former Finnish president Urho Kekkonen to be granted two such coins
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2012· 1 entry
The BBC broadcast a one-hour documentary on Jansson, Moominland Tales: The Life of Tove Jansson
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2008· 1 entry
Awarded Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for Inheritance (2008).
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2001· 5 entries
Died 2001-06-27.
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“Byłabym albo złą malarką, albo złą żoną. I nie chcę sprowadzać na świat dzieci, które zabije jedna z przyszłych wojen.”
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“Those damn Moomins. I don't want to hear about them any more. I could vomit on the Moomintrolls.”
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Jansson died on 27 June 2001 at the age of 86.
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“Teatr jest najważniejszą rzeczą na świecie, gdyż tam pokazuje się ludziom, jakimi mogliby być, jakimi pragnęliby być, choć nie mają na to odwagi, i jakimi są.”
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1994· 1 entry
Awarded Svenska Akademiens stora pris (1994).
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1992· 1 entry
Awarded Selma Lagerlöf Prize (1992).
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1977· 1 entry
“Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip, Vol. 1”
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1976· 1 entry
Won Pro Finlandia Medal of the Order of the Lion of Finland (1976).
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1975· 1 entry
Awarded Order of the Smile (1975).
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1974· 1 entry
The first Moomin opera was produced, with music composed by Ilkka Kuusisto
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1972· 2 entries
Awarded Swedish Academy Finland Prize (1972).
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Awarded Mårbacka Award (1972).
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1971· 1 entry
Awarded Karl Emil Tollander Prize (1971).
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1968· 2 entries
Swedish public TV, SVT, made a documentary about Tove called Moomins and the Sea (39 min
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Jansson wrote six novels, including the admired Sommarboken (The Summer Book), and five short story collections for adults
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1966· 1 entry
Awarded Hans Christian Andersen Award (1966).
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1965· 1 entry
Awarded Längmanska kulturfondens Finlandspris (1965).
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1964· 1 entry
Won Anni Swan Medal (1964).
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1958· 1 entry
Awarded Elsa Beskow plaque (1958).
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1956· 1 entry
Jansson met her lifelong partner, Tuulikki Pietilä, known as "Tooti"
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1953· 1 entry
Awarded Nils Holgersson Plaque (1953).
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1952· 2 entries
After Comet in Moominland and Finn Family Moomintroll had been translated into English, a British newspaper man, Charles Sutton, asked if Tove Jansson would be interested in drawing comic strips about the Moomins
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Jansson designed stage settings and dresses for Pessi and Illusia, a ballet by Ahti Sonninen which was performed at the Finnish National Opera
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1946· 1 entry
And 1948 respectively, were highly successful, and sales of the first book increased correspondingly
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1937· 1 entry
Studied at Academy of Fine Arts of Helsinki (1933–1937).
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1914· 1 entry
Born 1914-08-09.
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