into a finnish-swedish family and grew up in Helsinki.
Her father Vicktor Jansson was a sculptor and her
mother Signe Hammarsten-Jansson was an artist
and illustrator. Tove studied at the universities
of art in Stockholm and Helsinki and at the Ecole
des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
In the beginning she wrote short stories and worked as an illustrator and cartoonist / caricaturist for several magazines. When she was 31 Tove wrote the first the books, which would later make her famous, 'The Little Trolls and the Great Flood'.
Her actual breakthrough as 'Moomin Mother' was most notable in 1953 with her job for the British Evening News, in which a comic strip about the Moomins was printed daily. Soon this comic series was sold world-wide and captured the hearts of children everywhere.
In total Tove wrote and illustrated eight Moomin novels and three picture books and wrote the text for the picture book 'An Unwanted Guest'. The Moomin books had been written in Swedish before the first Finnish book was published in 1952. All the Moomin books written between 1960 to 1980 had been published in Swedish an Finnish at the same time.In total the stories had been published in 34 languages.
For her literary achievement Tove received some 50 awards and nominations, including the Nils Holgersson prize in 1953, the Hans Christian Andersen medal in 1966, the Order of the Smile Polish children's award in 1975 and the title of honorary professor issued by Finland's president in 1995.
She died on 27th June 2001.
In the beginning she wrote short stories and worked as an illustrator and cartoonist / caricaturist for several magazines. When she was 31 Tove wrote the first the books, which would later make her famous, 'The Little Trolls and the Great Flood'.
Her actual breakthrough as 'Moomin Mother' was most notable in 1953 with her job for the British Evening News, in which a comic strip about the Moomins was printed daily. Soon this comic series was sold world-wide and captured the hearts of children everywhere.
In total Tove wrote and illustrated eight Moomin novels and three picture books and wrote the text for the picture book 'An Unwanted Guest'. The Moomin books had been written in Swedish before the first Finnish book was published in 1952. All the Moomin books written between 1960 to 1980 had been published in Swedish an Finnish at the same time.In total the stories had been published in 34 languages.
For her literary achievement Tove received some 50 awards and nominations, including the Nils Holgersson prize in 1953, the Hans Christian Andersen medal in 1966, the Order of the Smile Polish children's award in 1975 and the title of honorary professor issued by Finland's president in 1995.
She died on 27th June 2001.
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