Tove Jansson by Westin, Boel -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents 1 – I’m Busy

A Really Great One Tove’s Busy Cennini Self-Portraits Biography

2 – Family

Signe Hammarsten Viktor Jansson Mother’s Dynamic Brothers Hammarsten and Jansson

3 – The Embryo Artist

The Tove Publishing Co!!! The Storyteller I’m a Writer A Free Young Lady The Painter at the Ateneum

4 – The Travelling Painter

The Janssons’ Paris Tales of a Painter Longing for Italy The Illustrator Drawing, Politics, and Trolls

5 – A Men’s War

Tove and Eva A Men’s War Scenarios of War The Family I Just Paint Self-Portraits and One-Woman Shows The Studio in the Tower Colonies for Artists and Forests of Dreams Peace

6 – Moomin Tales and Monumental Paintings

Moomintroll’s Strange Journey A Moominological Story The Creation Story The Original Manuscript The World of Peace

7 – The Time of the Apocalypse

The Comet and the Prophet Tarzan and Atos Comet in Moominland as a Children’s Book Publication

8 – Moomin Passion

Moomin Summer The Golden Butterfly The Magic of Love The Publisher’s Smile Thingumy al Fresco Windrose House

9 – Trolls and Humans

Between One Sentence and the Next Moomin on the Wall and on the Stage The Queen of Surprises Imagination A New Age

10 – The Wild 1950s

A Theatre of Pictures Longing for Mother Private Changes Midsummer Night’s Dream The Nature of Theatre Jansson the Moominist Dear Mr Sutton The Moomins Grow Moomin Business Painter and Author

11 – The Troll Who Stepped Out in the Cold

Too-ticky Moominland Midwinter The Painter The Enchanter Transformation The Great Journeys

12 – A Need for Expression

The First Letter from Åke Give Me a Picture Spring-Cleaning the Painter The Loving Toffle The Letter A Best-loved Book Who Will Comfort Astrid? The Invisible A Writer of Children’s Books for Adults

13 – The Woman Who Fell in Love with an Island

To the Island The Melancholy of Guilt To the Island Again Father’s Book To the Lighthouse Mamma al Secco

14 – The Stone and the Story

Medals and Revisions Stories of Childhood Sacred Sculpture Moomin’s Daughter

15 – Dreaming of a Valley

Towards Paris A Summer of Writing ‘Moominvalley Revisited’ Nummulites Sorrow A New Family

16 – Journeys with Tove

Freedom The Listener The Listener Herself The Summer Book Change Sun Cities Drama in Paris The Most Dangerous Journey

17 – A Time for Words

Writing Oneself New Pictures Work and Love The Black Novel Messages Letters The Last Story

Acknowledgments: Godparents Chronology Tove Jansson’s Published Works Photo Credits Index of Works Index of People About the Author