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"Tove Jansson longed to be alone. As a child, she slept on a high shelf in her
family’s home in Helsinki. Her mother, a successful illustrator, piled books
from floor to ceiling and her father, a sculptor, kept a studio that dominated
the majority of the space.
The Janssons were part of the relatively affluent Swedish-speaking minority in
Finland, a group stereotypically regarded as artistic. Magazine and newspaper
articles were written about the Janssons’ bohemian home.
“I want to be a wild thing, not an artist,” the young Tove wrote in her diary.
But she was an artist, ineluctably, just as her father had hoped she would be.
She didn’t create out of a desire for notoriety — when fame hit in her late
30s, it only made her shyer, as Boel Westin, an emeritus professor of
literature at Stockholm University, points out in her biography, “Tove Jansson:
Life, Art, Words.”"
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