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[citiesandsigns]

Val came home the other day with Tuula Karjalainen's new Tove Jansson biography, which is out in Swedish now. (If you haven't realised yet, you soon will: I'm a Tove Jansson nerd.) I haven't actually had time to read much of it yet, but I certainly have looked at the pictures! Unlike Boel Westin's Tove Jansson biography it's in colour, and there's

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[citiesandsigns]

Tove Jansson's illustrations are often really great, in a charming-but-not-cutesy way - I'm definitely a fan of her ink drawings in particular, which are used as illustrations in all her children's books - there're also Swedish editions of Alice in Wonderland and The Hobbit which she illustrated. And she was a really good author. It's all vaguely unfair, somehow.

[crystalusagi]

D= that looks wonderful.

I want to learn Swedish by reading Tove Jansson books. Is this at all a possibility eventually?

[citiesandsigns]

They're not the easiest! I mean, there are picture books, but they're written in fairly eccentric language. You'll have to work your way up, I think. :)

[crystalusagi]

Yes, I suppose so.

I need to find a better Swedish course, though. The one I got was rubbish.