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Item specifics
- Condition
- Title
- Tove Jansson Life, Art, Words: The Authorised Biography
- ISBN
- 1908745452
- EAN
- 9781908745453
- Type
- Hardback
- Binding
- Hardback
- Date of Publication
- 2014-01-02
- Publication Name
- N/A
- Release Title
- Tove Jansson Life, Art, Words: The Authorised Biography
- Artist
- Westin, Boel
- Brand
- N/A
- Colour
- N/A
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Tove Jansson Life, Art, Words: the Authorised Biography
- Item Height
- 243 mm
- Publisher
- Sort# of Books
- Genre
- Biographies & True Stories
- Item Weight
- 863 g
- Item Width
- 163 mm
- Number of Pages
- 576 Pages
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The Finnish-Swedish writer and artist Tove Jansson achieved worldwide fame as the creator of the Moomin stories, written between 1945 and 1970 and still in print in more than twenty languages. However, the Moomins were only a part of her prodigious output. Already admired in Nordic art circles as a painter, cartoonist and illustrator, she would go on to write a series of classic novels and short stories. She remains Scandinavia's best loved author. Tove Jansson's work reflected the tenets of her life: her love of family (and special bond with her mother), of nature, and her insistence on freedom to pursue her art. Love and work was the motto she chose for herself and her approach to both was joyful and uncompromising. If her relationships with men were shaded by an ambivalence towards marriage, those with women came as a revelation, especially the love and companionship she found with her long-time partner, the artist Tuulikki Pietila, with whom she shared her solitary island of Klovharu. In this meticulously researched, authorised biography, Boel Westin draws together the many threads of Jansson's life: from the studies interrupted to help her family; the bleak years of war and her emergence as an artist with a studio of her own; to the years of Moomin-mania, and later novel writing. Based on numerous conversations with Tove, and unprecedented access to her journals, letters and personal archives, Tove Jansson: Life, Art, Words offers a rare and privileged insight into the world of a writer whom Philip Pullman described, simply, as 'a genius'.
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Publisher
Sort# of Books
ISBN-13
9781908745453
eBay Product ID (ePID)
176759710
Product Key Features
Publication Year
2014
Book Title
Tove Jansson Life, Art, Words: the Authorised Biography
Number of Pages
576 Pages
Language
English
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
243 mm
Item Weight
863 g
Item Width
163 mm
Additional Product Features
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United Kingdom
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