Finnish illustrator Tove Jansson's Moomin comic strips will finally be published in English in book form. The Canadian publisher Drawn & Quaterly will release the first of the five-book series in ...

Eight decades after their debut, the Moomins remain Finland’s most treasured literary export. Fans flocked to the official Moomin Museum to honour the impact of the beloved characters. 80 years on, ...

While the Moomins -- the loveable characters first created by Tove Jansson in 1945 -- are a global brand that has been parlayed into merchandise, animated TV series and movies, much of the creative ...

While we readily pick up books from the Anglosphere, a world of children’s literature in other languages is undiscovered because they have not been translated. Let’s fix that The stories we encounter ...

Actor Bill Skarsgard has joined Alicia Vikander in the voice cast for 'Moomins and the Winter Wonderland'. The animated film is based on Tove Jansson's original books. Malgorzata Wieckowicz-Zyla, ...

This year marks the 80th anniversary of The Moomins, the Finnish/Swedish trolls that have delighted generations of children, becoming a cultural phenomenon in their own right. While posterity will ...

The English-speaking world tends to be resistant to children’s literature from other languages. “Serious” literature — whether in French, Russian, Spanish or Sanskrit — finds its way across language ...

Tove Jansson’s Finnish troll creations have beguiling adventures with a host of strange characters. But, at heart, their strength comes from being a loving family Thinking about all the “family” ...

In her book Comet in Moominland, the beloved Finnish writer, artist and illustrator Tove Jansson (1914-2001) wrote, "You must go on a long journey before you can really find out how wonderful home is" ...