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Tove Jansson

1914 - 2001

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Tove Marika Jansson (Fenno-Swedish: [ˈtuːve ˈjɑːnsːon] ; 9 August 1914 – 27 June 2001) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish author, novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author. Brought up by artistic parents, Jansson studied art from 1930 to 1938 in Helsinki, Stockholm, and Paris. She held her first solo art exhibition in 1943. Over the same period, she penned short stories and articles for publication, and subsequently drew illustrations for book covers, advertisements, and postcards. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tove Jansson is the 194th most popular writer (down from 185th in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Finland and the most popular Finnish Writer.

Tove Jansson is most famous for her Moomin series of children's books. The Moomins are a family of white, round-bodied, hippopotamus-like creatures who live in the forests of Finland.

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Among writers, Tove Jansson ranks 194 out of 7,302. Before her are John Steinbeck, Adam Mickiewicz, Sigrid Undset, Halldór Laxness, Petronius, and Georges Simenon. After her are Fuzûlî, Johannes V. Jensen, Menander, François-René de Chateaubriand, Orhan Pamuk, and Friedrich Hölderlin.

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Among people born in 1914, Tove Jansson ranks 5. Before her are Yuri Andropov, Louis de Funès, Raymond Davis Jr., and Hedy Lamarr. After her are Alan Hodgkin, Thor Heyerdahl, Mohammed Zahir Shah, Tyrone Power, Tenzing Norgay, Marguerite Duras, and Julio Cortázar. Among people deceased in 2001, Tove Jansson ranks 3. Before her are Herbert A. Simon, and Anthony Quinn. After her are George Harrison, Didi, Josef Bican, Ahmad Shah Massoud, Don Bradman, Jack Lemmon, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Clifford Shull, and Jorge Amado.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Tove Jansson ranks 5 out of 751. Before her are Alvar Aalto (1898), Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (1867), Simo Häyhä (1905), and Jean Sibelius (1865). After her are Frans Eemil Sillanpää (1888), Paavo Nurmi (1897), Tarja Halonen (1943), Elias Lönnrot (1802), Urho Kekkonen (1900), Artturi Ilmari Virtanen (1895), and Sauli Niinistö (1948).

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Among WRITERS In Finland

Among writers born in Finland, Tove Jansson ranks 1. After her are Frans Eemil Sillanpää (1888), Mika Waltari (1908), Mikael Agricola (1510), Arto Paasilinna (1942), Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804), Aleksis Kivi (1834), Zachris Topelius (1818), Eino Leino (1878), Väinö Linna (1920), Minna Canth (1844), and Juhani Aho (1861).

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