We’re just over a week into the new year and it already looks to be an interesting one. The big bit of news for me is that I’m off to Finland for a month. This came about after discussions with FILI,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Between 1954 and 1968, Tove and Lars Jansson created hundreds of Moomin comic strips for The Evening News. So what happened to all of these when the newspaper ceased to be? If you’re squeamish, look away now. They were binned. Aside[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Don’t worry – there are Moomins aplenty at the new exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery. But the simply-titled Tove Jansson exhibition digs deep into the history of her work. The exhibition has already been shown in other parts of the world,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One of the challenges in presenting Villain in the Moominhouse was acquiring images good enough to project onto a large screen. The Moomin Museum in Tampere provided immense and invaluable assistance here, rooting out the original slides taken by Per Olov[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It was an Autumn night, and the valley was silent. The full moon shone, and not a breath of wind stirred the sea. Everyone who was living or staying in the Moominhouse had agreed that it was bedtime, but[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
To commemorate the opening of the new Moomin Museum in Tampere, a new set of stamps was issued in May, and I’ve just got hold of a set. They’re really rather nice, and the scans simply don’t do justice to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The cat is well and truly out of the bag now. As revealed on the Moomin website, I will be doing a reading of Villain in the Moominhouse at the ArchWay With Words Literary Festival on 25th September in Archway, North London. Never heard[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I published a paper earlier in the year on my ongoing translation work, and I’m very happy now to take the online antimacassar off it and reproduce it here. As well as giving an insight into the background and the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
May Day is celebrated in many countries in many ways and in Finland, it’s called Vappu. It’s also a significant date in the Moomin calendar as, sixty-five years ago to the day, a meeting took place that was to set in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I came across this in the annals of the British Library and tracked down a copy online a week later. Punch was a satirical magazine that started in 1842, patterned on the French satire magazine, Le Charivari. This magazine hit[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…