To start Women in Translation Month this year, I return to one of my favourite authors, whose birthday is next week. Tove Jansson never fails to make you think. This is about a woman artist who cannot escape her own…
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Tagged with: Finland, Finnish Swedish, The True Deceiver, Thomas Teal, Tove Jansson, Women in Translation Month
Posted in books, Tove Jansson Centenary, translation
Posted in books, Tove Jansson Centenary, translation
A bookish birthday for Finland
Finland is 99 today, and counting. Independence Day today marks the start of the centenary year. The celebrations really kick off with the New Year – including Book Finland 2017 which celebrates something Finns do a lot of – reading. The average Finn borrows…
Tagged with: A. A. Prime, Emmi Itäranta, Finland, Finnish, Johanna Sinisalo, Kaija Anttonen, KirjaSuomi, Laura Lindstedt, Lola Rogers, Maria Turtschaninoff, Owen Witesman, Rauni Magga Lukkari, Salla Simukka, Sofi Oksanen, Suomi100, Terhi Ekebom, Thomas Teal, Tove Jansson
Posted in books, gender, history, literature, translation
Posted in books, gender, history, literature, translation
The painter who wrote: Tove Jansson’s letters
Tove Jansson was born 102 years ago today. Her letters were published in the original Swedish for her centenary, and you can read extracts in English translation by David McDuff at the Books from Finland archive. They are a treasure…
Tagged with: Books from Finland, David McDuff, Finnish, Jaana Nikula, Swedish, Tove Jansson, Translation
Posted in Illustration, literature, Tove Jansson Centenary, translation
Posted in Illustration, literature, Tove Jansson Centenary, translation
Thank you for the stories
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…
Tagged with: Aleksis Kivi, British Library, Children's Books, Finnish, Johanna Sinisalo, Maria Turtschaninoff, Mikkeli, Moomins, Nordic Library Week, Roald Dahl, Rosa Liksom, Salla Simukka, Seven Brothers, Tove Jansson, Translation
Posted in books, literature
Posted in books, literature
Tove Jansson 101: Riviera Memories
Tove Jansson turns 101 this Sunday. She was 61 exactly when I was born, so I will be celebrating at a secret location on the day, hence the advance nature of this post. What is there to celebrate this year? For…
Alarmingly elegant translations: The White Review
If Paris calls London “alarmingly elegant”, it’s worth taking another look. Especially if it’s in translation from all around the globe. This month’s online issue of The White Review is a box of delights. I like to claim my favourites first,…
Tagged with: Alejandra Pizarnik, Argentinian, Bill Johnston, Finnish, German, Herta Müller, Literature, London, Magdalena Tulli, Paris, Philip Boehm, Poetry, Polish, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, Thomas Teal, Tove Jansson, Translation, White Review, Yvette Siegert
Posted in literature, poetry, translation
Posted in literature, poetry, translation
Finland: Cool or Weird?
Finland is this year’s guest of honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair. This opens up Finnish literature to a German-speaking and global audience, with lots of great authors and over 60 translators in attendance. Finnland: Cool. I have to say, I DON’T like the…
Tagged with: David Hackston, Finnish, Finnish Weird, Finnland:Cool, Frankfurt Book Fair 2014, German, Johanna Sinisalo, Lola Rogers, Salla Simukka, Timo Parvela, Tove Jansson, Translation
Posted in books, literature, translation
Posted in books, literature, translation
freedom is the best thing: Tove is 100!
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
Posted in books, Illustration, international, literature, Tove Jansson Centenary, translation
more than moomins: illustration and translation
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…
Tagged with: Alice in Wonderland, Fantasy, Finnish, Hobbit, Illustration, Moomins, Tenniel, Tolkien, Tove Jansson, Translation
Posted in Illustration, translation
Posted in Illustration, translation
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