{"product_id":"tove-jansson-life-art-words-the-authorised-biography","title":"Tove Jansson Life  Art  Words: The Authorised Biography","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Finnish-Swedish writer and artist Tove Jansson achieved worldwide fame as the creator of the Moomin stories  written between 1945 and 1970 and still in print in more than twenty languages. However  the Moomins were only a part of her prodigious output. Already admired in Nordic art circles as a painter  cartoonist and illustrator  she would go on to write a series of classic novels and short stories. She remains Scandinavias best loved author. Tove Janssons work reflected the tenets of her life: her love of family (and special bond with her mother)  of nature  and her insistence on freedom to pursue her art. Love and work was the motto she chose for herself and her approach to both was joyful and uncompromising. If her relationships with men foundered on her ambivalence towards marriage  those with women came as a revelation  especially the love and companionship she found with her long-time partner  the artist Tuulikki Pietil  with whom she lived on the solitary island of Klovharu. In this meticulously researched  authorised biography  Boel Westin draws together the many threads of Janssons life: from the studies interrupted to help her family; the dark shades of war and her emergence as an artist with a studio of her own; to the years of Moomin-mania  and later novel writing. Based on numerous conversations with Tove  and unprecedented access to her journals  letters and personal archives  Tove Jansson: Life  Art  Words offers a rare and privileged insight into the world of a writer whom Philip Pullman described  simply  as a genius.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44968150073397,"sku":"ByrdShop_1908745568","price":39.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781908745569.jpg?v=1770647670","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/tove-jansson-life-art-words-the-authorised-biography","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}