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Tove Jansson Life, Art, Words

Author : Boel Westin
Publisher : Sort of Books
ISBN 13 : 1908745460
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Tove Jansson Life, Art, Words written by Boel Westin and published by Sort of Books. This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Finnish-Swedish writer and artist Tove Jansson achieved worldwide fame as the creator of the Moomin stories, written between 1945 and 1970 and still in print in more than twenty languages. However, the Moomins were only a part of her prodigious output. Already admired in Nordic art circles as a painter, cartoonist and illustrator, she would go on to write a series of classic novels and short stories. She remains Scandinavia's best loved author. Tove Jansson's work reflected the tenets of her life: her love of family (and special bond with her mother), of nature, and her insistence on freedom to pursue her art. Love and work was the motto she chose for herself and her approach to both was joyful and uncompromising. If her relationships with men foundered on her ambivalence towards marriage, those with women came as a revelation, especially the love and companionship she found with her long-time partner, the artist Tuulikki Pietilä, with whom she lived on the solitary island of Klovharu. In this meticulously researched, authorised biography, Boel Westin draws together the many threads of Jansson's life: from the studies interrupted to help her family; the dark shades of war and her emergence as an artist with a studio of her own; to the years of Moomin-mania, and later novel writing. Based on numerous conversations with Tove, and unprecedented access to her journals, letters and personal archives, Tove Jansson: Life, Art, Words offers a rare and privileged insight into the world of a writer whom Philip Pullman described, simply, as 'a genius'.

Letters from Tove

Author : Tove Jansson
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452963827
Total Pages : 637 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Letters from Tove written by Tove Jansson and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A virtual memoir in letters by the beloved creator of the Moomins Tove Jansson’s works, even her famed Moomin books, fairly teem with letters of one kind or another, from messages bobbing in bottles to whole epistolary novels. Fortunately for her countless readers, her life was no different, unfolding as it did in the letters to family, friends, and lovers that make up this volume, a veritable autobiography over the course of six decades—and the only one Jansson ever wrote. And just as letters carry a weight of significance in Jansson’s writing, those she wrote throughout her life reflect the gravity of her circumstances, the depth of her thoughts and feelings, and the critical moments of humor, sadness, and grace that mark an artist’s days. These letters, penned with characteristic insight and wit, provide an almost seamless commentary on Jansson’s life within Helsinki’s bohemian circles and on her island home. Shifting between hope and despair, yearning and happiness, they describe her immersion in art studies and her ascension to fame with the Moomins. They speak frankly of friendship and love, loneliness and solidarity, and also of politics, art, literature, and society. They summon a particular place and time reflected through a mind finely attuned to her culture, her world, and her own nature—all clearly put into biographical and historical context by the volume’s editors, both longtime friends of Tove Jansson—and, in the end, draw a complex, intimate self-portrait of one of the world’s most beloved authors.

Sculptor's Daughter

Author : Tove Jansson
Publisher : Sort of Books
ISBN 13 : 1908745347
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Sculptor's Daughter written by Tove Jansson and published by Sort of Books. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tove Jansson's first book for adults drew on her childhood memories to capture afresh the enchantments and fears of growing up in Helsinki in the nineteen tens and twenties. Described as both a memoir and 'a book of superb stories' by Ali Smith, her startlingly evocative prose offers a glimpse of the mysteries of winter ice, the bonhomie of balalaika parties, and the vastness of Christmas viewed from beneath the tree.

Tove Jansson

Author : Tuula Karjalainen
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 1846148499
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (461 download)

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Download or read book Tove Jansson written by Tuula Karjalainen and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-11-27 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive illustrated biography of one of the most unique and beloved children's authors of the 20th century, the creator of the Moomins. Tove Jansson (1914-2001) led a long, colourful and productive life, impacting significantly the political, social and cultural history of 20th-century Finland. And while millions of children have grown up with Little My, Snufkin, Moomintroll and the many creatures of Moominvalley, the life of Jansson - daughter, friend and companion - is more touching still. This book weaves together the myriad qualities of a painter, author, illustrator, scriptwriter and lyricist from fraught beginnings through fame, war and heartbreak and ultimately to a peaceful end.

The Woman Who Borrowed Memories

Author : Tove Jansson
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590177665
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Woman Who Borrowed Memories written by Tove Jansson and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An NYRB Classics Original Tove Jansson was a master of brevity, unfolding worlds at a touch. Her art flourished in small settings, as can be seen in her bestselling novel The Summer Book and in her internationally celebrated cartoon strips and books about the Moomins. It is only natural, then, that throughout her life she turned again and again to the short story. The Woman Who Borrowed Memories is the first extensive selection of Jansson’s stories to appear in English. Many of the stories collected here are pure Jansson, touching on island solitude and the dangerous pull of the artistic impulse: in “The Squirrel” the equanimity of the only inhabitant of a remote island is thrown by a visitor, in “The Summer Child” an unlovable boy is marooned along with his lively host family, in “The Cartoonist” an artist takes over a comic strip that has run for decades, and in “The Doll’s House” a man’s hobby threatens to overwhelm his life. Others explore unexpected territory: “Shopping” has a post-apocalyptic setting, “The Locomotive” centers on a railway-obsessed loner with murderous fantasies, and “The Woman Who Borrowed Memories” presents a case of disturbing transference. Unsentimental, yet always humane, Jansson’s stories complement and enlarge our understanding of a singular figure in world literature.

Art in Nature

Author : Tove Jansson
Publisher : Sort of Books
ISBN 13 : 1908745177
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Art in Nature written by Tove Jansson and published by Sort of Books. This book was released on 2012-07-06 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An elderly caretaker at a large outdoor exhibition, called Art in Nature, finds that a couple have lingered on to bicker about the value of a picture; he has a surprising suggestion that will resolve both their row and his own ambivalence about the art market. A draughtsman's obsession with drawing locomotives provides a dark twist to a love story. A cartoonist takes over the work of a colleague who has suffered a nervous breakdown only to discover that his own sanity is in danger. In these witty, sharp, often disquieting stories, Tove Jansson reveals the fault-lines in our relationship with art, both as artists and as consumers. Obsession, ambition, and the discouragement of critics are all brought into focus in these wise and cautionary tales.

Fair Play

Author : Tove Jansson
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590176855
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Fair Play written by Tove Jansson and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2012-10-17 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fair Play is the type of love story that is rarely told, a revelatory depiction of contentment, hard-won and exhilarating. Mari is a writer and Jonna is an artist, and they live at opposite ends of a big apartment building, their studios connected by a long attic passageway. They have argued, worked, and laughed together for decades. Yet they’ve never really stopped taking each other by surprise. Fair Play shows us Mari and Jona’s intertwined lives as they watch Fassbinder films and Westerns, critique each other’s work, spend time on a solitary island (recognizable to readers of Jansson’s The Summer Book), travel through the American Southwest, and turn life into nothing less than art.

Notes from an Island

Author : Tove Jansson
Publisher : Sort of Books
ISBN 13 : 1908745959
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Notes from an Island written by Tove Jansson and published by Sort of Books. This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the bitter winds of autumn 1963, Tove Jansson, helped by Brunström, a maverick fisherman, raced to build a cabin on a treeless skerry in the Gulf of Finland. The island was Klovharun, and for thirty summers Tove and her beloved partner, the graphic artist, Tuulikki Pietilä, retreated there to live, paint and write, energised by the solitude and shifting seascapes. Notes from an Island, published in English for the first time, is both a chronicle of this period and a homage to the mature love that Tove and 'Tooti' shared for their island and for each other. Tove's spare prose, and Tuulikki's subtle washes and aquatints combine to form a work of meditative beauty. '... Tooti wandered aimlessly around the island and stood stock still for long periods. I thought I knew what she was doing. She was working again. Copperplate etchings and wash drawings. Mostly the lagoon, the lagoon as a consummate mirror for clouds and birds, the lagoon in a storm, in fog. And the granite, first and foremost, the granite, the cliff, the rocks. It's all peace and quiet now.'

Finn Family Moomintroll

Author : Tove Jansson
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312608896
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Finn Family Moomintroll written by Tove Jansson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moomintroll and his friends, Snufkin and Sniff, find a hat with magical powers.

Moomin's Little Book of Words

Author : Tove Jansson
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 9780374350482
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Moomin's Little Book of Words written by Tove Jansson and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2011-04-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover Moomintroll's favorite first words as you share his busy day all the way to bedtime. Moomintroll takes the youngest readers through a day in his life, building simple vocabulary along the way. From dancing to book-browsing, the scenes depicted echo favorite moments in a child's own day, ending on a bedtime note. This adorable board book introduces babies and preschoolers to beloved characters from Swedish author-illustrator Tove Jansson’s beloved Moominworld. Every book celebrates curiosity and promotes Moomin’s core values: imagination, tolerance, humor, friendliness, and independence. Look for these other Moomin board books! Moomin’s Little Book of Numbers Moomin’s Lift-the-Flap Hide and Seek Moomin and the Birthday Button

The Listener

Author : Tove Jansson
Publisher : Sort of Books
ISBN 13 : 1908745371
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book The Listener written by Tove Jansson and published by Sort of Books. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her first ever story collection, Jansson revealed the clarity of vision and light philosophical touch that were to become her hallmark. From the good listener who begins to betray the secrets confided to her, to vignettes of a city storm or the slow halting of spring, these stories are gifts of originality and depth.

Moomin Book Two

Author : Tove Jansson
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781897299197
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (991 download)

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Download or read book Moomin Book Two written by Tove Jansson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-10-30 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes four comic strips featuring Moomin, a teenage troll who looks like a hippopotamus and passively deals with life's troubles; including "Moomin's Winter Follies," "Moomin Mamma's Maid," "Moomin Builds a House," and "Moomin Begins a New Life."

The Moomins and the Great Flood

Author : Tove Jansson
Publisher : Sort of Books
ISBN 13 : 1908745142
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book The Moomins and the Great Flood written by Tove Jansson and published by Sort of Books. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the run-up to Moomins eightieth anniversary (2025) the spotlight is on The Moomins and The Great Flood and the first glimpse it offers of Moomin Valley. Tove Jansson wrote this first ever Moomin story in 1945, in the wake of World War II, and although a children's tale, it vividly evokes the displacement of refugees throughout Europe at the time. A global Moomin.com campaign will celebrate the eighty years of the Moomins with the slogan 'the door is always open', emphasising Jansson's timely message of kindness and inclusiveness towards those forced to flee to safety. This new format edition includes an introduction by much loved author Frank Cottrell-Boyce and a full colour fold-out 'Moomin history' poster.

A Winter Book

Author : Tove Jansson
Publisher : Sort of Books
ISBN 13 : 1908745185
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book A Winter Book written by Tove Jansson and published by Sort of Books. This book was released on 2011-12-14 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Beautifully crafted and deceptively simple-seeming, these stories are like pieces of scattered light.' Ali Smith Following the widely acclaimed and bestselling The Summer Book, here is A Winter Book collection of some of Tove Jansson's best loved and most famous stories. Drawn from youth and older age, and spanning most of the twentieth century, this newly translated selection provides a thrilling showcase of the great Finnish writer's prose, scattered with insights and home truths. It has been selected and is introduced by Ali Smith. A Winter Book features 13 stories from Tove Jansson's first book for adults, The Sculptor's Daughter (1968) plus seven of her most cherished later stories (from 1971 to 1996), translated into English and published here for the first time.

Tove Jansson

Author : Boel Westin
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 145297120X
Total Pages : 844 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Tove Jansson written by Boel Westin and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth, perceptive account of the unconventional life of the Moomins’ beloved creator, now available in the United States Tove Jansson achieved fame as the creator of the Moomins, beloved by generations of readers around the world. Remarkably, the Moomins were only part of the prodigious creative output of this Finnish-Swedish writer and artist. Jansson’s work also includes short stories and five novels for adults, as well as paintings, murals, and book illustrations. In this acclaimed biography, Boel Westin relies on numerous conversations with Jansson and unprecedented access to her journals, letters, and personal archives to present an engrossing and comprehensive review of the life and world of Scandinavia’s best-loved author. As Westin’s meticulous research makes clear, Jansson’s artistic and literary works reflected what was most important to her: the love of family and nature and the desire to pursue her art. Guided by her personal motto, “Love and work,” Jansson seized both with uncompromising joy. And while her romantic relationships with men proved unfulfilling, she found those with women—especially with her longtime partner, the artist Tuulikki Pietilä—both grounding and inspiring. Westin weaves together the many threads of Jansson’s rich, complex life: an education interrupted to help her family; the bleak war years and her emergence as a painter; the decades of Moominmania across books, newspaper comic strips, merchandise, and adaptations; her later fictions, including her popular The Summer Book; and her time with Pietilä on the solitary island of Klovharu. Tove Jansson: Life, Art, Words offers fans and admirers around the world the most complete portrait of the writer Philip Pullman described as “a genius, a woman of profound wisdom and great artistry.”

Moomin and the Birthday Button

Author : Tove Jansson
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241333172
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book Moomin and the Birthday Button written by Tove Jansson and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2018-10-25 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Moomin family and their friends are the delightful creation of Tove Jansson, and are full of a particular humour and magic that has enchanted generations of children and adults alike. Using the author's original characters and artwork, Moomin and the Birthday Button is part of a stunning new range of children's titles launching in the year of the Moomins' 65th anniversary celebrations. In this, the first of a new series of picture books, Moomintroll wakes up full of excitement. It's his birthday! But when it appears that his friends have forgotten all about his special day, Moomintroll is very upset. Even Moominmamma finds it hard to comfort him! Then there's a knock at the door . . . Who can it be, and what will happen next?

The True Deceiver

Author : Tove Jansson
Publisher : Sort of Books
ISBN 13 : 1908745126
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book The True Deceiver written by Tove Jansson and published by Sort of Books. This book was released on 2011-12-14 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the deep winter snows of a Swedish hamlet, a strange young woman fakes a break-in at the house of an elderly artist in order to persuade her that she needs companionship. But what does she hope to gain by doing this? And who ultimately is deceiving whom? In this portrayal of two women grappling with truth and lies, nothing can be taken for granted. By the time the snow thaws, both their lives will have changed irrevocably.