Tove Jansson

Tove Jansson

Writing
13 Movies 1 TV Shows

Born

September 9, 1914

Died

June 27, 2001

Place of Birth

Helsinki, Finland

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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 …

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