Discover more about the life and creations of Tove Jansson through this continually cultivated library of links
As part of my ongoing Tove Trove project, I have collated a selection of links to noteworthy Tovian websites, articles, artworks and other related information resources in English. Please do let me know if you stumble across anything of interest that should be included here. Keep popping back because this list keeps growing!
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OFFICIAL WEBSITES
- Tove Jansson or Tovejansson.com: “The most extensive website dedicated to the Finnish author and artist Tove Jansson, [the woman] who created Moomin and much more.”
- Moomin Museum: “The world’s only Moomin Museum”, located in Tampere, Finland.
- Moomin Official Site: “Discover Moominvalley and the magical characters created by Tove Jansson. Get the latest Moomin news and stories.”
- Moomin Shop UK: “Explore the biggest selection of official Moomin products available in the UK.”
- Moominvalley Park: Official website of the Moomin amusement & theme park, located on the shores of Lake Miyazawa in Hanno City, Saitama Prefecture, Japan.
- Tove Jansson Akebono Children’s Forest Park: A park established in Hanno City, Japan, as a tribute to the enchanting world created by Tove Jansson.
- Moominworld: A theme park located on the island of Kailo near the old town of Naantali, in Southwest Finland.
- Sort of Books: Publishing Tove Jansson’s books in English since 2001.
- Drawn & Quarterly: D&Q Moomin is the place to purchase Moomin books if you live in Canada.
- Barnes & Noble: The official stockist of Moomin books in the USA.
- The Summer Book Movie: Adapted from Tove Jansson’s beloved novel, The Summer Book.
- Moomin Parade: Information on the event in Brussels, which takes place in May.
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ACADEMIC WRITINGS
- De Gruyter: Introduction: Phenomenological approaches to Tove Jansson’s fiction (Sara Heinämaa and Joona Taipale, 5 July 2018)
- De Gruyter: Tove Jansson, Nietzsche and the poetics of overcoming (Hans Ruin, 5 July 2018)
- Finnish Literature Scociety: ‘New book sheds light on arctic hysteria and other strange northern emotions in Finnish literature‘ (12 Nov 2024, includes Tove’s work)
- Research Gate: Tove Jansson Rediscovered (review) (David Russell, September 2008)
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THE ARTIST & HER ART
- 4Columns: Curious and gleeful, socially awkward and irritable: in the multidimensional characters of the beloved Moomin universe, a reflection of their creator’s dualities (Mark Sinker, 16 December 2022, Tove Jansson by Paul Gravett, Illustrator Series)
- Artnet: Tove Jansson artworks (sold and for sale)
- BBC Culture: The serious artist behind a children’s classic (Cath Pound, 14 December 2016)
- The Comics Journal: D&Q’s Tom Devlin talks Moomin: ‘A particularly rare thing’ (Chris Mautner, 12 August 2024)
- The Comics Journal: Moomin: The Art and The Story: The Moomins Go To Japan (Benjamin Clark, 10 December 2019)
- DailyArt Magazine: Tove Jansson’s Life of Wonders (Natalia Tiberio, 28 July 2025)
- Design Stories: Tove Jansson’s studio: A creative sanctuary and the birthplace of the Moomins (Anna-Kaisa Huusko, 13 June 2025)
- Forbes: A Spotlight On Tove Jansson, Painter (Helsinki exhibition, Chadd Scott, 28 October 2024)
- Houses of Tove Jansson: Tove Jansson with Carlotta Bailly-Borg, Anne Bourse, Ida Ekblad, Elmgreen & Dragset, Vidya Gastaldon, Emma Kohlmann and Cerith Wyn Evans (Paris exhibition, 8 Impasse de Mont-Louis, 29 September to 29 October 2023)
- It’s Nice That: The Moomin magician: celebrating Tove Jansson’s boundless creativity (Paris exhibition, Liz Gorny, 5 October 2023)
- Open Culture: The Sublime Alice in Wonderland Illustrations of Tove Jansson, Creator of the Globally-Beloved Moomins (1966) (Josh Jones, 30 October 2020)
- Rights & Brands: How Tove Jansson chose the languages for the postcard ‘March for Peace’ – and why some found the choice infuriating (28 February 2022)
- The Standard: Tove Jansson: How the Moomin creator’s comic strips took London newspapers by storm in the 1950s (Dulwich exhibition, Jessie Thompson, 21 December 2017)
- Wallpaper*: The rich, creative life of Moomins creator Tove Jansson (Paris exhibition, Hannah Silver, 25 September 2023)
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BIOGRAPHICAL / MISCELLANEOUS
- A Narrative Of Their Own: Writing Rituals of Tove Jansson (Kate Jones, 21 September 2025)
- Aeon: Pippi and the Moomins: The antics in postwar Nordic children’s books left propaganda and prudery behind. We need this madcap spirit more than ever (Richard W Orange, 6 October 2020)
- AnOther: Retracing the Footsteps of Tove Jansson’s Adventurous Life (Claire Marie Healy, 20 October 2017)
- BBC News: Tove Jansson: Love, war and the Moomins (Mark Bosworth, 13 March 2014)
- Bluestocking Oxford: Tove Jansson: Satirising Stalin (Enlii Lewis, 11 July 2019)
- Finnish Design Shop: Tove Jansson’s studio: A creative sanctuary and the birthplace of the Moomins (Anna-Kaisa Huusko, 13 June 2025)
- The Guardian: How Tove Jansson’s love of nature shaped the world of the Moomins (Susannah Clapp, 5 June 2021)
- The Marginalian: I Long to Read More in the Book of You: Moomins Creator Tove Jansson’s Tender and Passionate Letters to the Love of Her Life (Maria Popova, 6 December 2020)
- My Helsinki: Experience Helsinki like Tove Jansson (Helsinki Partners, 7 November 2024)
- VOGUE Scandinavia: Why do we still love the Moomins so much? It all comes down to Tove Jansson (Allyson Shiffman, 1 April 2025, interview with Sophia Jansson)
- The Yale Review: Tove Jansson’s Genius: The radical imagination that built the visionary world of the Moomins (Evan James, 1 June 2020)
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BOOKS
- The Atlantic: The Outsider Who Captured American Loneliness (Lauren LeBlanc, 10 February 2025, Sun City)
- Caught by the River: Notes from an Island (Dan Richards, 13 November 2021)
- The Guardian: My favourite book as a kid … Moominland Midwinter by Tove Jansson (Tom Holland, 7 May 2020)
- Kate Macdonald: Tove Jansson and the Moomins (A fond, memory-filled introduction to Tove and her Moomin books, 5 August 2015)
- LARB: A Little Piece of a Life: Tove Jansson’s Fiction for Adults (Madeleine LaRue, 21 December 2014, various titles)
- The Marginalian: Control, Surrender and the Paradox of Self-Transcendence: Vintage Wisdom from the Moomins (Maria Popova, 22 January 2022, Moominland Midwinter)
- The Millions: Sad, Strange Brilliance: On Tove Jansson and Moomin (Alix Ohlin, 12 June 2014, the Moomin books)
- R&B: Emma Klingenberg follows Tove Jansson’s life through a musical lens in new book Tove and Her Music (27 May 2025, Tove and Her Music)
- The Rumpus: On Tove Jansson’s Eccentrics and Oddballs (Emily Webber, Rachel Luria and Beverly Luria, 7 March 2025, The Woman Who Borrowed Memories: Selected Stories)
- Swedish Book Review: Beyond Moomin Valley: Tove Jansson’s Writing for Adults (Claire Dickenson, 2013 Special Issue)
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MOOMIN FEATURES (GENERAL)
- The Artifice: Moomins and the Finnish Culture (birdienumnum17, 12 June 2020)
- The Conversation: Moomin80 (a series of articles celebrating the 80th anniversary of the Moomins, various writers, 2025)
- Financial Times: The booming Moomin mug mania (Georgina Elliott, 24 November 2025)
- The Guardian: The Dangerous Journey by Tove Jansson – review (Frank Cottrell Boyce, 19 February 2011)
- Sandbox World: Why the Moomins Still Matter 80 Years Later (unknown writer, probably 2025)
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