Moomin
by Tove Jansson · first published 2006
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The author's comic strip is published for the first time in North America in the first volume of a proposed multi-volume series designed to reprint the entire strip of the magical world of the author's creation, the Moomins.
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The Moomin books by Tove Jansson
on “The Good Soldier Švejk (2018)” ↗Slight aside: anyone who grew up reading Tove Jansson‘s Moomin books will remember the Groke—the closest thing that the Moomin world had to a monster. She spent all of her time wandering the world looking for warmth and (mostly inadvertently) terrifying people. It’s…
on “Groke: A situational awareness system to make seafaring safer” ↗Slightly related: Tove Jansson (author of the Moomin books) related that the process of working with her English translator on an early book had been revelatory, in exploring what she was actually meaning to say to the extent that she reckoned that by the…
on “Against Translation” ↗