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Tove Jansson

Born

in Helsinki, Finland

August 09, 1914

Died

June 27, 2001

Genre

Children's, Classics, Comics

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Tove Jansson was born and died in Helsinki, Finland. As a Finnish citizen whose mother tongue was Swedish, she was part of the Swedish-speaking Finns minority. Thus, all her books were originally written in Swedish.

Although known first and foremost as an author, Tove Jansson considered her careers as author and painter to be of equal importance.

Tove Jansson wrote and illustrated her first Moomin book, The Moomins and the Great Flood (1945), during World War II. She said later that the war had depressed her, and she had wanted to write something naive and innocent. Besides the Moomin novels and short stories, Tove Jansson also wrote and illustrated four original and highly popular picture books.

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Average rating: 4.13 · 296,455 ratings · 29,777 reviews · 985 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Summer Book by Tove Jansson, Esther Freud (Contributor), Sophia Jansson (Contributor) 3.97 avg rating — 66,304 ratings — published 1972 — 159 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Comet in Moominland (The Moomins, #2) 4.25 avg rating — 24,356 ratings — published 1946 — 206 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Moomins and the Great Flood (The Moomins, #1) by Tove Jansson, David McDuff (Translator) 4.04 avg rating — 22,968 ratings — published 1945 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Finn Family Moomintroll (The Moomins, #3) 4.30 avg rating — 20,000 ratings — published 1948 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Moominland Midwinter (The Moomins, #6) 4.40 avg rating — 18,485 ratings — published 1957 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Moominsummer Madness (The Moomins, #5) by Tove Jansson, Thomas Warburton (translator) 4.29 avg rating — 15,027 ratings — published 1954 — 152 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Moominpappa at Sea (The Moomins, #8) 4.22 avg rating — 12,748 ratings — published 1965	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tales from Moominvalley (The Moomins, #7) 4.30 avg rating — 11,814 ratings — published 1962 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Moominvalley in November (The Moomins, #9) by Tove Jansson, Kingsley Hart (Translator) 4.26 avg rating — 11,842 ratings — published 1970 — 125 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fair Play by Tove Jansson, Thomas Teal (Translator), Ali Smith (Introduction) 3.86 avg rating — 8,490 ratings — published 1989 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Tove Jansson

Mumintrollen (9 books)
by

Tove Jansson,

Kingsley Hart (Translator)

4.25 avg rating — 152,979 ratings

Moomin Comic Strip (19 books)
by

Tove Jansson

4.30 avg rating — 18,998 ratings

Moomin: The Complete * Jansson Comic Strips (11 books)
by

Tove Jansson (Illustrator),

Lars Jansson (Writer)

4.33 avg rating — 13,908 ratings

Moomin Picture Books (26 books)
by

Tove Jansson

4.30 avg rating — 8,570 ratings

Країна мумі-тролів (3 books)
by

Tove Jansson,

Туве Янссон,

Наталя Іваничук (Translator)

4.53 avg rating — 1,444 ratings

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Quotes by Tove Jansson (?)

“One summer morning at sunrise a long time ago
I met a little girl with a book under her arm.
I asked her why she was out so early and
she answered that there were too many books and
far too little time. And there she was absolutely right.”
― Tove Jansson

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“I only want to live in peace, plant potatoes and dream!”
― Tove Jansson, Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip, Vol. 01

tags: aspirations

381 likes

“You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.”
― Tove Jansson, Tales from Moominvalley

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August 2021 New School Classic Group Read Poll

Orlando by Virginia Woolf, 1928, 272 pages

51 votes, 24.3%

The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene, 1940, 222 pages

32 votes, 15.2%

The Summer Book by Tove Jansson, 1972, 172 pages

29 votes, 13.8%

The Neverending Story by Michael Ende, 1979, 396 pages

26 votes, 12.4%

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler, 1939, 231 pages

24 votes, 11.4%

The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton, 1969, 327 pages

22 votes, 10.5%

The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić, 1945, 314 pages

14 votes, 6.7%

The Late Mattia Pascal by Luigi Pirandello, 1904, 272 pages

6 votes, 2.9%

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Hannah Green, 1964, 288 pages

6 votes, 2.9%

210 total votes

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