![]() ![]() Success may also have obscured how ambivalent she was, how often on the cusp of identities. Their marketing triumph – in which Jansson enthusiastically participated – has overshadowed her other achievements as a painter, novelist, short-story writer, anti-Nazi cartoonist, and designer of magazine covers. The tales of amiable troll creatures have been taken to generations of hippy hearts their pear-shaped faces have adorned a million ties. Her illustrated Moomin books, which began to be published just after the second world war, brought her phenomenal acclaim and devotion. Klovharun encapsulates something of Jansson’s originality as an artist and writer – and her human presence. ![]() ![]() The island meant “privacy, remoteness, intimacy, a rounded whole without bridges or fences”. For 18 years she and her partner Tuulikki Pietilä spent long summers there, heading out from Helsinki as soon as the ice broke in April, leaving only in early October. It has scarcely any foliage, no running water and no electricity. Klovharun in the Finnish archipelago is tiny – some 6,000 sq metres – and isolated, “a rock in the middle of nowhere”, according to Jansson’s niece, Sophia. I n 1964, when she was in her 50s, the Moomin creator Tove Jansson settled on her dream island. ![]()
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