A short week for me means a brief message rather than my usual weekly wind up. You will, however, still see announcements for both Tove Jansson & Moomin Month and Women in Translation Month 2026, and among the birthday celebrants this weekend are Herman Melville, James Baldwin and Rose Tremain.
My latest addition to the Moomin shelf in the Tove Trove library is ‘Finn Family Moomintroll’, the third book in the original series, published in 1948.
A Tove Trove exploration of Olivier Norek’s ‘The Winter Warriors’, tracing the Winter War that shaped Tove Jansson’s early world and deepening my Reading Around Tove journey.
My latest addition to the Moomin shelf in the Tove Trove library is the second book in the original series, published in 1946. This year its 80th anniversary is being celebrated by Moominites around the world.
As part of my ongoing Tove Trove project, I have collated a selection of links to interesting Tovian websites, articles, artworks and other related English-language information resources. Keep popping back because this list will be growing.
The latest addition to the Moomin shelf in the Tove Trove library is the first book in the original series, published in 1945 during the final months of World War II. This year its 80th anniversary is being celebrated around the world.
As part of the ongoing Tove Trove project, I share my thoughts on Tove Jansson’s first book after the Moomins, her adult short story collection, ‘The Listener’.
As part of the ongoing Tove Trove project, I share my reflections on ‘Fair Play’, Tove Jansson’s “happy tales about two women”.
A brief flip through the English-language edition of ‘This is FINLAND 2025-26’ – a magazine filled with fascinating articles, including several about Tove Jansson and her Moomin characters.
As part of the ongoing Tove Trove project, I share my musings on Tove Jansson and Tuulikki Pietilä’s ‘Notes from an Island’.
As much to prove I’m not strictly moominogamous (i.e. not a one troll woman) as because I very much enjoyed reading this urban fantasy novel, I decided to share my thoughts on ‘Troll: A Love Story’ by the Finnish science fiction and fantasy writer, Johanna Sinisalo.
The year 2020 marks 75 years since Tove Jansson wrote her first story about the Moomins. To celebrate the anniversary, Moomin Characters Ltd is launching a one-year campaign called #OURSEA to help save the Baltic Sea.
My second Janssonian contribution to the Tove Trove Library is the sixth book in the Moomin series, first published in 1957.
My first Janssonian contribution to the Tove Trove Library is the fifth book in the Moomin series, first published in 1954.
My latest literary project entails reading books written by or about Tove Jansson – creator of the Moomins.
The World of Moominvalley is simply the ultimate guide for any Moomin fan, old or new.
Tove Jansson, author of the Moomins and one of the great idiosyncratic talents of the 20th century, must surely have found her ideal biographer in Boel Westin.