Tove Jansson
Jansson wrote the ''Moomin'' novel series for children, starting with the 1945 ''The Moomins and the Great Flood''. The following two books, ''Comet in Moominland'' and ''Finn Family Moomintroll'', published in 1946 and 1948 respectively, were highly successful, and sales of the first book increased correspondingly. For her work as a children's author she received the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1966; among her many later awards was the Selma Lagerlöf Prize in 1992. Her Moomin stories have been adapted for the theatre, the cinema, and as an opera.
She held a solo exhibition of paintings in 1955, and five more between 1960 and 1970. She carried out several commissions for murals in public buildings around Finland between 1945 and 1984. She created the illustrations both for her own books and for classics including ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' and ''The Hobbit''.
Starting with the semi-autobiographical (''Sculptor's Daughter'') in 1968, Jansson wrote six novels, including the admired (''The Summer Book''), and five short story collections for adults. Provided by Wikipedia
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