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, 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'
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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 were shaded by an
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 Pietila, with whom she
shared her 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 bleak years 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'
