Tove Jansson : life, art, words / Boel Westin ; translated by Silvester Mazzarella.

Author
Westin, Boel [Browse]
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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

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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.
Other editions
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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