by Tove Jansson
Novels and stories
Art in Nature
Fair Play
Letters from Klara
The Listener
Sculptor’s Dauighter
The Summer Book
Travelling Light
The True Deceiver
A Winter Book (anthology)
Moomin books
Sort Of Books publish Tove Jansson’s nine Moomin novels in hardback collectors’ editions, along with the three large format illustrated Moomin books for younger readers.
The Moomins and the Great Flood
Comet in Moominland
Finn Family Moomintroll
The Memoirs of Moominpappa
Moominsummer Madness
Moominland Midwinter
Tales from Moominvalley
Moominpappa at Sea
Moominvalley in November
The Book about Moomin, Mymble and Little My Who Will Comfort Toffle?
The Dangerous Journey
About the Author
The Finnish writer and artist Tove Jansson (1914–2001) is known throughout the world as the creator of the Moomin stories, which were first published in English sixty years ago and have remained in print ever since.
In her fifties, Tove Jansson turned her attention to writing for adults, producing a dozen novels and story collections, including the classic, bestselling The Summer Book.
THE EDITORS
Professor Boel Westin is the author of Tove Jansson: Life, Words, Art (Sort of Books, 2014).
Helen Svensson was Tove Jansson’s last editor at Schildts and edited the essay collection, Travels with Tove. Both were Tove’s trusted friends.
THE TRANSLATOR
Sarah Death is an award-winning translator from Swedish.
Copyright
Letters from Tove © Tove Jansson/Moomin Characters™
Selection, introduction, commentaries © Boel Westin and Helen Svensson
First published as Brev från Tove Jansson by Schildts & Söderströms, Helsinki, 2014
English translation © Sarah Death and Sort Of Books 2019
All rights reserved
No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher except for the quotation of brief passages in reviews.
This English translation first published in 2019 by
Sort Of Books, PO Box 18678, London NW3 2FL
Typeset in Caslon Pro (10.5/13)
Sort Of Books gratefully acknowledges the financial assistance of FILI – Finnish Literature Exchange
496pp.
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
ePub ISBN 978 1 90874 573 6