Tove Jansson Nataliya Sysoyeva PH51 Tove Jansson Contents
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Tove Jansson Nataliya Sysoyeva PH-51 Tove Jansson
Contents ► Life and a family ► Painter & illustrator ► Writer ► Moomin books ► The main hero ► Moomin Museum ► Awards ► References
Tove Marika Jansson (1914 -2001) Life & family Was born and died in Helsinki, Finland Family ► father - Viktor Jansson (sculptor) ► mother- Signe Hammarsten. Jansson (illustrator) ► brothers § § Per Olov Jansson (photographer) Lars Jansson ( autor & comic strip artist) Swedish-speaking Finns minority T. Jannson
Painter & illustrator ► Stockholm Art School (1930 – 1933) ► Graphic School of the Finnish Art Academy (1933 – 1937) ► careers of author and painter are of equal importance ► Style – from the classical impressionism to the highly abstract modernism The Exploits of Moominpappa (1950) © Moomin Characters, Tove Jansson
Painter & illustrator ► illustrator and cartoonist for the Finland-Swedish satirical magazine Garm (1930 s -1953) ► illustrated Swedish translations of other classics Moominland Midwinter (1957) © Moomin Characters, Tove Jansson § J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit § Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ► Illustrated her own works
Writer ► Moomin books ► Other books in Swedish ► Some books translated in English § The Summer Book (1972) § Sun City (1974)
The Moomin books ► the first book was written during Finland's Winter War of 1939 -1940 ► international success in 1954 ► originally written in Swedish ► translated into 35 languages © Moomin Characters and T. Jannson, Tove Jansson
The main hero ► Moomintroll ► From Tove’s political cartoons § As a signature character near the artist’s name ► The name of the creature was invented by Tove’s uncle
The Moomin books The Moomins and the Great Flood (1945) ► Comet in Moominland (1946) ► Finn Family Moomintroll (1948) ► Moominland Midwinter (1957) ► The Exploits of Moominpappa (1950) ► Moominsummer Madness (1955) ► Tales from Moominvalley (1962) ► Moominpappa at Sea (1965) ► Moominvalley in November (1970) ►
Awards ► H. C. Andersen Medal 1966 ► Swedish Academy prize 1972 ► the Order of the Smile Polish children's award in 1975 ► Topelius Prize 1978 ► Finnish state prize for literature 1963, 1971, 1982 ► Helsinki Prize 1980 etc.
Moomin museum Tampere, Finland Moomin Collection ► original illustrations ► 40 miniatures ► a small Moomin House ► Moomin Valley multimedia ► the Moomin Valley shop
References ► www. virtual. finland. fi ► www. io. com ► www. librarything. com ► www. teatry. art. pl ► www. tampere. fi
Tove Jansson Nataliya Sysoyeva PH-51 Tove Jansson
