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The pictures used on this homepage, are taken from the books Farlig midsommar (1954) and Trollvinter (1957) with text and illustrations by Tove Jansson

Books: 1954, 1957 © SCHILDTS FÖRLAGS AB, Helsingfors, Finland
Images used: © 2009 MOOMIN CHARACTERS / BULLS

The author, Tove Jansson, started as painter, but later on also got involved in writing. Her children's literature has been translated into many languages. She has received many awards for her work, among which the Nils Holgerson Medal (1953) and the Hans Christian Andersen Price (1966)

The Muumi books are originally written in Swedish and have been translated into: Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Lettish, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portugese, Russian, Saamish, Slovakian, Slovenian, Spanish, Ukranian, and Welsh.

Tove died in a Helsinki hospital, age 86, on 27 June 2001

For further reading about Tove Jansson and/or Muumi please select a category:

Books - Muumi - Theme Parks - Gadgets - Images and Multimedia - Links

Books

Moomin Babel [a multilingual overview, see also here] (Tartu, Estonia)
Sayt posvyashchën tvorchestvu Tove Jansson (St. Peterburg, Russia)
Virtual reality inspired by Tove Jansson (St. Peterburg, Russia)
Zépé's Virtuelles Muminforschungszentrum (Bremen, Germany)
The Moomin Trove (Cambridge, UK)
Libroj pri Muminvalo (in Esperanto)
Tove Jansson, with on-line versions of SHlyapa volshebnika, Mumi-troll' i kometa, Memuary papy Mumi-trollya, Volshebnaya zima, Mumi-papa i more [in Russian] (Moskva, Russia)
Comprehensive international Bibliography (Tartu, Estonia)

Muumi

The Moomintroll Home Page (Houston, Texas)
Moomin FAQ (from s.c.nordic FAQ, Linköping, Sweden)
Moomin Characters (Veikkola, Finland)
Unofficial Moomin Character Guide (Washington, USA)
Muumi's 50th Anniversary (Tampere, Finland)

Theme parks

Magnificent Moomin Valley (Tampere, Finland)
Moomin World (Naantali, Finland)

Gadgets

Download cool Muumi WIN/MAC gadgets (Icons and Windows startup screen)
Badminton med Mummitrollet (Oslo, Norway)
A Java based on-line Muumi game (Helsinki, Finland)
Helger's Moomin Valley (Tartu, Estonia)

Images and multimedia

more than 100 Mumin pictures (Linköping, Sweden)
Finnish Muumi Stamps (Bremen, Germany)
Download the Muumi pictures used on this homepage!
Have a closer look at the Shockwave Flash Muumi which is used on the opening page!
(an animated Muumi presentation with the Finnish Muumi song playing in the background)

Links

Moomin cinema (Japan)
Finnair Japan [with Muumi design] (Japan)
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