Tove Jansson
Birthday
1914/09/09
Day of death
2001/06/27 (86 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Helsinki, Finland
Also know as
Tove Marika Jansson, Туве Марика Янссон, トーベ・ヤンソン, Туве Янссон
Biography
Tove Marika Jansson was a Swedish-speaking Finnish novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author. For her contribution as a children's writer she received the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1966. Brought up by artistic parents, Jansson studied art from 1930 to 1938 in Stockholm, Helsinki and then Paris. Her first solo art exhibition was in 1943. At the same time, she was writing short stories and articles for publication, as well as creating the graphics for book covers and other pu...Read more
Acting
(2020) The Complete Amateur's Guide to Moomin
as Self
(1993) Travelling with Tove
as Herself
(2021) Tove Jansson and the Moomins
as ---
(1994) Hur gick det sen?
as Narrator
(2004) Tove and Tooti in Europe
as Self
(1968) Moomin and the Sea
as Self
(1998) Haru, Island of the Solitary
as Herself (archive footage)
(2023) Who Will Comfort Toffle?
as Narrator (voice)
(2023) The Book about Moomin, Mymble and Little My
as Narrator (voice)
(2012) Moominland Tales: The Life of Tove Jansson
as Self (archive footage)
(1988) A Glimpse of Tove Jansson
as Self
(1970) There are so many things you cannot understand
as Self
(1984) Tove and the Sea
as Self