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Author Description <b>Tove Jansson</b> was born and died in Helsinki, Finland. As a Finnish citizen whose mother tongue was Swedish, she was part of the Swedish-speaking Finns minority. Thus, all her books were originally written in Swedish.<br /><br />Although known first and foremost as an author, Tove Jansson considered her careers as author and painter to be of equal importance. <br /><br />Tove Jansson wrote and illustrated her first <i>Moomin</i> book, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3300083-the-moomins-and-the-great-flood" rel="nofollow noopener">The Moomins and the Great Flood</a> (1945), during World War II. She said later that the war had depressed her, and she had wanted to write something naive and innocent. Besides the <i>Moomin</i> novels and short stories, Tove Jansson also wrote and illustrated four original and highly popular picture books.<br /><br />Jansson's <i>Moomin</i> books have been translated into 33 languages.

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