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Thank you for the stories

Posted on 18 November 2015 by Kate Sotejeff-Wilson — 2 Comments

When I moved to Finland 3 years and 3 months ago, I barely knew the language. All I could read was the free supermarket adverts that came through the door, matching the products to multi-vowelled words underneath ( ääs and…

freedom is the best thing: Tove is 100!

Posted on 9 August 2014 by Kate Sotejeff-Wilson — 2 Comments

Tove Jansson was born 100 years ago today. If you live in Finland, you won’t have missed the anniversary Moomin mugs (with donations to UNICEF), the large and splendid retrospective of her work at the Ateneum national art gallery, or the…

Tagged with: Ateneum, Finnish, ICA, Moomins, Tove Jansson, Tuula Karjalainen, Work and Love
Posted in books, Illustration, international, literature, Tove Jansson Centenary, translation

the ghost child

Posted on 22 January 2014 by Kate Sotejeff-Wilson — 2 Comments

Once upon a time there was a little ghost. It lived all alone in the forest. All the other ghosts were born in the forest because they died there. They were very old or very young, and their families were…

Tagged with: Finnish, Illustration, Language, Literature, Moomins, pubilc libraries, subtitles, Terhi Ekebom, The Ghost Child
Posted in Illustration, language, literature, translation

more than moomins: illustration and translation

Posted on 9 August 2013 by Kate Sotejeff-Wilson — 4 Comments

Tove Jansson would be 99 today. I began learning Finnish by reading the Moomin comic strip, which made Tove Jansson’s name around the world. Started in the London Evening News in 1954, the complete collection is still being published in Finnish. Tove’s 1960s…