What is Finland? #Tovetrove – a book about books
Overflow through the English -language edition of This is Finland 2025-26
“It doesn’t matter how you interpret Moomins, who is your favorite character or which type of cake you prefer – the Moomins holiday should always be a holiday of peace, nature, equality and freedomS “
As I turned abstract through LinkedIn conversations recently, I came across a publication This is Finland 2025-26A full -color magazine inviting potential readers to “catch the spirit of this Janson and” Mumini “. On her cover, the smiling face of the Finnish actress Alma Alma Pyisti and below the words: “While we have compassion, we have hope.”
Of course, I was all eyes and I was lured even more after I realized that the whole thing was freely available as ISSUU interactive flipbook. Further inspection revealed this attention-drawing, 44 pages, English, to open “inspiring prospects for Finnish society, culture and nature” and published annually by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Business Finland and Sitra, Fonta Fund for Innovation.
By entering and as accompanied by the mast on page third is How to celebrate Moomin styleA brief preamble from Mika Hamaren, in which he sets the tone for what is ahead of this year that it is 80th Anniversary of the book “The First in History Moomin, Moomins and the great flood“Which, according to him, was published when Europe was recovering from World War II.” Like those who read it, they will know, the story follows the Moomin family as they are looking for a “missing Moominpappa and a peaceful place” to call home.
It is worth mentioning here that by the time Tove made this story, there were about 11 million displaced people in Europe, including about six million volunteers and forced workers, two million prisoners and 700,000 surviving concentration prisoners, so her job was probably intended to act as a sort of comfort in dark times. Also, as Hamaren points out, the “Quast of Heroes resonates” with the times we live now. As he says, “There are days when most of us would probably want to escape to the Mumin Valley and join an extended, loving family of fantastic creatures.”
To deviate slightly, I would like to mention in favor of those wishing to dig a little deeper this book Karen Langley (Books of Cagesy) and liz dexter (Adventures in reading, running and working from home) spend 2025 reading the original Moomin series as part of an unofficial reader (others are welcome to join them). They started with Moomins and the great flood at 15th February and publish their thoughts on each title for the duration of their #Moomin80 Project.
“… she lived a long life formed by love, freedom, sea and adventures – all this can be read and felt in her worksS “
After some interesting observations that Finland is “the first country in the world to provide full political rights to women” and is part of the “first generation of women free to do what they want” (though, I imagine that there may be some readers tempted to question such an exciting statement), we play the page that plays the role that has played, which has played, which has played, which has played. ZEADA BERGROT Thisand was the voice of Snorkmaiden in (for example) the 2014 animated family comedy, Moomins on the Riviera (Also available in soft covers). This is followed by a lighting characteristic in which she talks about her diverse career, personal philosophies, hopes for the future and life as a whole.
We learn that in the film she captures the moment when Tove Janson “meets theater director Vivik Bandler, one of her great loved ones.” Although, as we now know, Vivika stayed with her husband, but the two women remained great friends throughout Janson’s life. Alma tells the Christin Ella Markan that when she “uploads the role”, she knew that “depicting a favorite figure with a well -documented life and career” would be a “challenge”, but by giving permission to “fail in an interesting way,” she presented himself with “clean” and managed to “pursue it in a novel Scor “and managed to” express the idea to deal with Janson and to present it in a new light. ” This method works great and the film was received positively by both critics and audiences.
A little further, there are a nice two pages distributed to Finnish libraries: Strong as a libraryFor the way they “rediscover what it means to be a home for learning and information.” From “reading dogs to 3D printers”, Ahla’s secret emphasizes “some (from) activities (accessible to the public) in many Finnish libraries.”
Also, nestled among the features of saunas, aurora borealis and “reasons to love potatoes like Finn” is Bizarre the humanity of this Janson (On pages 40 to 42) A piece, touching Jansson’s huge work, which we are told, “can fill a few lives.”
Sidebar on page 43, Return to the dark roots of MoominsLooks at Moomin’s first book again, Moomins and the great flood Since 1945, “which is described as” an allegory for the war, which has just ended in Finland and Europe. ” Then it was followed by two photos, the first is Moominland, Naantali and the second, The Moomin Museum, Tampere – the only such museum in the world.
Finally, the back cover is the famous black -white drawing of this Janson and her Moomins with the last mention of 80 years Moomins.
The focus of this question is obviously the Finnish culture and it is nice to find on its pages how important this is Janson for the sense of identity of modern fine. This is a beautifully manufactured Tove and Moomin magazine, filled with professionally taken photos and compelling facts about the country. I look forward to reading future problems.
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Ninni Lehtniemi, an executive producer of Helsinki -based company Sanoma Content Studio, kindly suppressed me on paper on paper This is Finland 2025-26S The PDF version can be downloaded here and digital playback obtained by following this connection. To acquire the Print edition, please contact VIE-50@gov.fi. This number is available in German, French, Spanish, Japanese and Chinese – with a Russian edition, published in PDF and digital formats.
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Around this Janson
Tove Janson was born in Helsinki on August 9, 1914, the daughter of the father of Swedish Finland, who worked as a sculptor and mother who is a graphic designer. He first learns as an artist and made his name in his homeland as an artist and cartoonist. It became internationally known after creating Moomins. Later, she continues to write novels and brief fiction for adults. She works in her studio in Helsinki, moving to a tiny island in Finland’s bay during the summer months with her partner Tuliki Pietila. She died on June 27, 2001 at the age of 86.
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“She has never written a single sentence she has not lived or felt alone. Nothing was superficial, whether it was a description of nature or articulating her inner life.“
– The sculptor’s daughter: a childhood memoir (1968)
The above image of the magazine, © This is Finland, 2025.
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