From modest beginnings to global success - Moomin celebrates 80 years - Nya Dagbladet

This year marks 80 years since Tove Jansson's first book about the magical Moominvalley was published, which is causing celebrations especially in Finland, especially at the Moomin Museum in Tampere and at Moominworld in Naantali. Finnish-Swedish Tove Jansson began working as an illustrator for the satirical magazine Garm at the age of 15. Over the years, she drew several covers and other illustrations for the magazine, but it was in 1943 that s…