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Tove Jansson : life, art, words / Boel Westin ; translated by Silvester Mazzarella.
Author
Westin, Boel
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Uniform title
Tove Jansson.
English
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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
First University of Minnesota Press edition.
Published/Created
Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, 2024.
©2014
Description
523 pages, 24 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Details
Subject(s)
Jansson, Tove
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Jansson, Tove
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Criticism and interpretation
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Finnish literature (Swedish)
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Biography
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Women authors, Finnish
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20th century
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Biography
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Illustrators
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Finland
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Biography
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Women illustrators
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Finland
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Biography
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Illustration of books
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Finland
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20th century
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Illustrated children's books
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Finland
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History
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20th century
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Children's literature, Swedish
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Illustrations
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Translator
Mazzarella, Silvester
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Biographies
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Summary note
"Tove Jansson achieved fame as the creator of the Moomins, yet remarkably, the Moomins were only part of the prodigious creative output of this Finnish-Swedish writer and artist. Weaving together the many threads of her rich, complex life, 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"--Provided by publisher.
Notes
"First published in Swedish as 'Tove Jansson: ord, bild, liv' by Albert Bonniers Förlag, Sweden. English translation copyright 2014 Sort of Books / Silvester Mazzarella"--Title page verso.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
I'm busy
Family
The embryo artist
The travelling painter
A men's war
Moomin tales and monumental paintings
The time of the apocalypse
Moomin passion
Trolls and humans
The wild 1950s
The troll who stepped out in the cold
A need for expression
The woman who fell in love with an island
The stone and the story
Dreaming of a valley
Journeys with Tove
A time for words.
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Reproduction of (manifestation) Westin, Boel. Tove Jansson. London : Sort Of Books, 2014. 523 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
ISBN
9781517917296 ((hardcover))
1517917298 ((hardcover))
OCLC
1407277208
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