Tove Jansson, 1915–2001
Tove Jansson, author, illustrator and book designer, died on June 27. She was 86. Jansson received the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1966, and is best known as the creator of the Moomintrolls, a family of trolls. Her eight novels and four picture books based on the Moomins, written between 1945 and 1970, have been translated into more than 30 languages, and the characters have appeared on ...