• Apartamento Magazine
  • issue 34, Autumn/Winter 2024

Tove Jansson, The key to her island hangs by the door

Klovharun: Finland has many islands and almost as many names for them: island, islet, skerry, rock, and haru. Writer, painter, cartoonist, and author of the Moomin stories, Tove Jansson had two favourite islands in the Pellinge archipelago: Äggskär and Kummelskär. As a child, Jansson dreamt of becoming a lighthouse keeper on Kummelskär because it had a…

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