Samy lives on an island archipelago on Finland's southern
seaboard. He is foodie, a Swedish speaker and an outdoors expert,
spending most of the long summer nights, sleeping beneath the
stars. // The legendary creator of The Moomins, Tove Jansson (1914
- 2001), was born in 1914 in Helingsfors, Finland. Her mother was a
charicaturist and the designer of many of Finland's stamps, and her
father was a sculptor. Tove studied painting in Finland, Sweden and
France and later worked as a book illustrator, a designer and strip
cartoonist, as well as being involved in theatre décor and making
frescoes in public places. She drew her first Moomin in the 1930s,
just for fun, to tease her little brother by drawing the ugliest
creature she could think of. Moomin developed a nicer snout and
character and in 1939 he became a character in a children's story.
The Finn Family Moomingtroll has been a hugely successful book,
translated into many languages - many other Moomin stories
followed.
In 1966 Tove Jansson was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Medal
- an international award for the best children's book of the
year.
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