![]() ![]() ![]() Her next two books, Comet in Moominland and Finn Family Moomintroll, brought her international popularity, and led to a weekly comic strip in a London newspaper, which was later carried on by her younger brother. The Moomin characters appeared in 1945 in her children’s book The Moomins and the Great Flood, about a family of strange round creatures who are faced with catastrophe in their peaceful village. She found work as an illustrator for various publications, and had her first solo painting exhibit in 1943. Her parents, part of the Swedish-speaking minority in Finland, were both artists, and encouraged her to study art at school. ![]() A compendium of queer people in the 19th and 20th centuriesįinnish children’s writer, comic artist, and novelist, best known as the creator of the Moomin characters and books. ![]()
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