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The Finnish-Swedish writer and artist Tove Jansson achieved worldwide fame as the creator of the Moomin stories, written between 19and still in print in more .

Brought up by artistic parents, Jansson studied art from to in Helsinki , Stockholm , and Paris. She held her first solo art exhibition in Over the same period, she penned short stories and articles for publication, and subsequently drew illustrations for book covers, advertisements, and postcards. She continued her work as an artist and writer for the rest of her life.

Jansson wrote the Moomin novel series for children, starting with the The Moomins and the Great Flood. The following two books, Comet in Moominland and Finn Family Moomintroll , published in and respectively, were highly successful, and sales of the first book increased correspondingly. Her Moomin stories have been adapted for the theatre, the cinema, and as an opera.

Tove Marika Jansson was a Swedish-speaking Finnish author, novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author.

She held a solo exhibition of paintings in , and five more between and She carried out several commissions for murals in public buildings around Finland between and She created the illustrations both for her own books and for classics including Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and The Hobbit. Starting with the semi-autobiographical Bildhuggarens dotter Sculptor's Daughter in , Jansson wrote six novels, including the admired [ 1 ] Sommarboken The Summer Book , and five short story collections for adults.

Her family, part of the Swedish-speaking minority of Finland , was an artistic one: her father, Viktor Jansson , was a sculptor, and her mother, Signe Hammarsten-Jansson , was a Swedish-born graphic designer and illustrator. Tove's siblings also became artists: Per Olov Jansson became a photographer and Lars Jansson an author and cartoonist.

She also sold drawings that were published in magazines in the s. In the s Jansson made several trips to other European countries. She drew from these for her short stories and articles, which she also illustrated, and which were also published in magazines, periodicals and daily papers.