Tove Jansson

An elderly artist and her six-year-old granddaughter while away a summer together on a tiny island in the gulf of Finland. Gradually, the two learn to adjust to each other's fears, whims and yearnings for independence, and a fierce yet understated love emerges—one that encompasses not only the summer inhabitants but the island itself, with its mossy rocks, windswept firs and unpredictable seas. Full of brusque humour and wisdom, The Summer Book is a profoundly life-affirming story. Tove Jansson captured much of her own experience and spirit in the book, which was her favourite of the novels she wrote for adults. This new edition sees the return of a European literary gem—fresh, authentic and deeply humane.

Tove Jansson is revered around the world as one of the foremost children's authors of the twentieth century for her illustrated chapter books regarding the magical worlds of her creation, the Moomins. The Moomins saw life in many forms but debuted to its biggest audience ever on the pages of world's largest newspaper the London Evening News, in 1954. The strip was syndicated in newspapers around the world with millions of readers in 40 countries. Moomin Book One is the first volume of Drawn & Quarterly publishing plan to reprint the entire strip drawn by Jansson before she handed over the reigns to her brother Lars in 1960. This is the first time the strip will be published in any form in North America and will deservedly place Jansson among the international cartooning greats of the last century. The Moomins are a tight-knit family — hippo-shaped creatures with easygoing and adventurous outlooks. Jansson's art is pared down and precise, yet able to compose beautiful portraits of ambling creatures in fields of flowers or rock-strewn beaches that recall Jansson's Nordic roots. The comic strip reached out to adults with its gentle and droll sense of humor. Whimsical but with biting undertones, Jansson's observations of everyday life, including guests who overstay their welcome, modern art, movie stars, and high society, easily caught the attention of an international audience and still resonate today.

It is spring in the valley and the Moomins are ready for adventure Moomintroll and his friends Snufkin and Sniff find the Hobgoblin's top hat, all shiny and new and just waiting to be taken home. They soon realize that his is no ordinary hat; it can turn anything--or anyone--into something else

When Moomintroll learns that a comet will be passing by, he and his friend Sniff travel to the Observatory on the Lonely Mountains to consult the Professors. Along the way, they have many adventures, but the greatest adventure of all awaits them when they learn that the comet is headed straight for their beloved Moominvalley.

The Moomins and the Great Flood is the first book about the Moomins, originally published in 1945. It's the story about Moominmamma and Moomintroll's search for the missing Moominpappa and how they found their way to the Moominvalley.

Fair Play is the type of love story that is rarely told, a revelatory depiction of contentment, hard-won and exhilarating. Mari is a writer and Jonna is an artist, and they live at opposite ends of a big apartment building, their studios connected by a long attic passageway. They have argued, worked, and laughed together for decades. Yet they’ve never really stopped taking each other by surprise. Fair Play shows us Mari and Jona’s intertwined lives as they watch Fassbinder films and Westerns, critique each other’s work, spend time on a solitary island (recognizable to readers of Jansson’s The Summer Book), travel through the American Southwest, and turn life into nothing less than art.

This newly translated collection of stories brilliantly evokes the shifting scenes and restlessness of summer. A professor arrives in a beautiful Spanish village only to find that her host has left and she must cope with fractious neighbours alone; a holiday on a Finnish Island is thrown into disarray when a disconcerting young boy arrives; an artist returns to an old flat to discover that her life has been eerily usurped. Philosophical and profound, but with the deceptive lightness that is her hallmark, 'Travelling Light' is guaranteed to surprise and transport.

Muumipeikko ja hattivatit Muumipeikon ensimmäinen talvi Ei kevättä ilman Nuuskamuikkusta Kertomukset julkaistu ensi kerran Tivolikirjat-sarjassa 1992. Lisäpainokset: 2. p. 1996. - 3. p. 1997. - 5. p. 1999. - 6. p. 2000. - 7. p. 2002.

Observer les oiseaux sauvages, écrire un livre sur les vers de terre ou guetter les marins de passage, tel est le quotidien de la petite Sophie, qui passe ses vacances d’été sur une île du golfe de Finlande avec sa grand-mère. Une femme hors du commun, à la fois douce et espiègle, qui fume en cachette, jette sa canne pour prendre un bain de mer, et construit Venise avec des boîtes d’allumettes. À mi-chemin du rêve et de la réalité, leurs dialogues complices révèlent l’amour entre une femme qui connaît profondément la vie, et une enfant avide de la connaître. Auteur de renom dans les pays scandinaves, Tove Jansson est aussi connue dans le monde entier pour ses ouvrages pour enfants (dont la célèbre série des Moumines).

Dette er en samling fortellinger fra Mummitrollets verden. Vi møter Snusmumrikken som lager en vårvise, Filifjonka som tror på katastrofer, og Mummitrollet som finner verdens minste og siste drage. Et usynlig barn blir oppdratt i familien og gjort synlig av Mummimamma, hatifnattenes hemmelighet blir avslørt, og julen blir sett på med litt uvanlige øyne.

A virtual memoir in letters by the beloved creator of the Moomins. Tove Jansson’s works, even her famed Moomin books, fairly teem with letters of one kind or another, from messages bobbing in bottles to whole epistolary novels. Fortunately for her countless readers, her life was no different, unfolding as it did in the letters to family, friends, and lovers that make up this volume, a veritable autobiography over the course of six decades—and the only one Jansson ever wrote. And just as letters carry a weight of significance in Jansson’s writing, those she wrote throughout her life reflect the gravity of her circumstances, the depth of her thoughts and feelings, and the critical moments of humor, sadness, and grace that mark an artist’s days. These letters, penned with characteristic insight and wit, provide an almost seamless commentary on Jansson’s life within Helsinki’s bohemian circles and on her island home. Shifting between hope and despair, yearning and happiness, they describe her immersion in art studies and her ascension to fame with the Moomins. They speak frankly of friendship and love, loneliness and solidarity, and also of politics, art, literature, and society. They summon a particular place and time reflected through a mind finely attuned to her culture, her world, and her own nature—all clearly put into biographical and historical context by the volume’s editors, both longtime friends of Tove Jansson—and, in the end, draw a complex, intimate self-portrait of one of the world’s most beloved authors.

Una artista anciana y su nieta de seis años pasan los veranos en una pequeña isla del archipiélago nlandés. La abuela es algo malhumorada y poco sentimental; Sophia, impetuosa y volátil. Una conoce profundamente la vida, la otra está ansiosa por saberlo todo. Juntas exploran la isla y sus secretos, inventan historias para explicar los misterios que las circundan, mientras se preguntan sobre la vida, la muerte, la naturaleza que las rodea, el amor. Dos personajes en los extremos de la vida que se cruzan con aparente inocencia, pero que de a poco se revelan llenos de matices y claroscuros. Un juego que se potencia con la prosa cristalina y directa de Tove Jansson, capaz de hacer sentir sin ser sentimental o de describir con simpleza todo el esfuerzo de la naturaleza para sostener el precario equilibrio entre la supervivencia y la extinción. El libro del verano es un libro sencillamente brillante y cautivador, con la extraña virtud de reconfortar precisamente por las mismas razones que inquieta. "Finura poética, humor seco y un profundo amor por la naturaleza recorren toda su obra... El libro es tan encantador, tan evocador como una película de Hayao Miyazaki" ( Time Out New York ). "Es difícil describir el asombroso logro del arte de Jansson... la perfección de la lectura pequeña y tranquila" (The Guardian). "Cada cierto tiempo, se publica un libro que captura algo en nosotros... El libro de verano es uno de esos" ( Daily Telegraph ). "Excéntrico, divertido, sabio, lleno de alegrías y pequeñas aventuras. Este es un libro para toda la vida" (Esther Freud).

До першої із трьох книг серії «Країна Мумі-тролів» найзнаменитішої казкарки Фінляндії Туве Янсон про кумедних мумі-тролів та інших дивовижних істоток, що населяють Долину Мумі, увійшли повісті «Маленькі тролі і велика повінь», «Комета прилітає», «Капелюх Чарівника».

Vieną šiltą ir ramią dieną, kai ant trolių Mumių slėnio dulkė vasaros lietus, visi nutarė pažaisti namelio viduje gūžynių. Snifas stovėjo kampe, užsidengęs nosį letenomis, ir balsiai skaičiavo. Suskaičiavęs iki dešimties, atsigręžė ir pradėjo ieškoti: pirma paprastose slėptuvėse, o paskui nepaprastose. Muminukas gulėjo po stalu verandoje ir nerimavo. Jo slėptuvė nebuvo gera, šitai jis suprato. Snifas tikrai pakels staltiesę ir sugaus jį. Muminukas pasidairė į visas puses ir išvydo aukštą juodą skrybėlę, kurią kažkas buvo nukišęs į kampą. Geriau nesugalvosi! Snifas niekuomet neieškos po skrybėle. Muminukas vikriai ir tyliai nusėlino į kampą ir užsimovė skrybėlę ant galvos. Ji siekė jam tik iki pilvo, tačiau jeigu pritūps ir sukiš į vidų uodegą, tikrai pasidarys visai nematomas. Muminukas patyliukais kikeno, klausydamasis, kaip Snifas surado visus, vieną po kito. Hemulis aiškiai vėl tūnojo po sofa, jis niekuomet neieškodavo geresnės vietos. Dabar visi lakstė aplinkui ieškodami Muminuko.

Et gennemgående tema i disse 12 mesterlige noveller af Tove Jansson er passion som både velsignelse og forbandelse, hvad enten den er kunstnerisk, erotisk eller eksistentiel. I centrum står forskellige nære relationer med alle de roller, vi spiller over for og med hinanden. Samlingen, der udkom på svensk i 1978, og som ikke før har været oversat til dansk, er det første værk, hvori Tove Jansson åbent - og helt usensationelt -  skriver om kærlighedsforhold mellem mennesker af samme køn. 

Книга друга з серії «Країни Мумі-тролів» – це нові неповторні зустрічі з милим сімейством Мумі-тролів та їхніми багатьма друзями. Маленькі герої книжки підросли настільки ж, наскільки подорослішали читачі «Країни Мумі-тролів». Тепер їм доводиться замислюватися над важливими речами, якими сповнений світ, – такими, як сенс життя, самопізнання і самоствердження, любов, взаємоповага. В книгу увійшли повісті «Мемуари Тата Мумі-троля», «Небезпечне літо», «Зима-чарівниця».

This children's story is one of a series of books about the Moomins that blend magic, humour and adventure in the setting of the small, but ever-changing Moominvalley.

When a flood sweeps through the valley, the Moomins must find a new house. And with typical Moomin good luck, one just happens to be floating by. It looks normal enough, but there are curtains where one wall should be, strange rows of lights, and other odd amenities. Then Moomintroll and the Snork Maiden disappear, and the family realize that the house may hold the answers to more than they ever dreamed.

Kolejna na polskim rynku wyjątkowa powieść dla dorosłych autorstwa twórczyni legendarnego cyklu o Muminkach. W małej miejscowości Västerby, położonej nad skutą lodem zatoką, od miesięcy sypie śnieg. Ludziom pozostaje więc głównie wymienianie plotek. Tego roku na językach wszystkich są Katri Kling oraz Anna Aemelin. Ta pierwsza uchodzi za dziwaczkę. Stroni od ludzi, mieszka w mansardzie nad sklepem z prostodusznym bratem oraz bezimiennym psem. Anna to szanowana ilustratorka książek dla dzieci, zamożna właścicielka opustoszałej posiadłości. Katri uzna Annę za łatwy cel swoich manipulacji. Kobiety połączy dziwaczna relacja. Czy jednak mogą się czegoś nawzajem nauczyć?

A New York Review Books OriginalThe lies we tell ourselves and the lies we tell others—is the subject of this, Tove Jansson’s most unnerving and unpredictable novel. Here Jansson takes a darker look at the subjects that animate the best of her work, from her sensitive tale of island life, The Summer Book, to her famous Moomin stories: solitude and community, art and life, love and hate. Snow has been falling on the village all winter long. It covers windows and piles up in front of doors. The sun rises late and sets early, and even during the day there is little to do but trade tales. This year everybody’s talking about Katri Kling and Anna Aemelin. Katri is a yellow-eyed outcast who lives with her simpleminded brother and a dog she refuses to name. She has no use for the white lies that smooth social intercourse, and she can see straight to the core of any problem. Anna, an elderly children’s book illustrator, appears to be Katri’s opposite: a respected member of the village, if an aloof one. Anna lives in a large empty house, venturing out in the spring to paint exquisitely detailed forest scenes. But Anna has something Katri wants, and to get it Katri will take control of Anna’s life and livelihood. By the time spring arrives, the two women are caught in a conflict of ideals that threatens to strip them of their most cherished illusions.

Following the widely acclaimed and bestselling The Summer Book, here is a Winter Book collection of some of Tove Jansson’s best loved and most famous stories. Drawn from youth and older age, and spanning most of the twentieth century, this newly translated selection provides a thrilling showcase of the great Finnish writer’s prose, scattered with insights and home truths. It has been selected and is introduced by Ali Smith, and there are afterwords by Philip Pullman, Esther Freud and Frank Cottrell Boyce. The Winter Book features thirteen stories from Tove Jansson’s first book for adults, The Sculptor’s Daughter (1968) along with seven of her most cherished later stories (from 1971 to 1996), translated into English and published here for the first time.

In Tove Jansson’s much loved short story, The Invisible Child, the isolated Ninny is helped to regain her voice and take her rightful place in the world using a simple Moomin recipe. She is welcomed into the Moomin family and treated with equality and respect. This is one of the most touching of all Moomin stories and is paired in this unique book with The Fir Tree, the Moomins’ gloriously unselfish take on Christmas. Alongside these two classic stories, this gift edition also includes an exclusive Moomin Gallery, featuring the characters of Moominvalley, compiled by Philip Ardagh. Both stories are taken from the short story collection Tales from Moominvalley (The Moomins, #7) which was first published in Swedish as Det osynliga barnet (Mumintrollen, #7) in 1962.