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Notes from an Island

By Tove Jansson and Tuulikki Pietilå
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For thirty summers, Tove Jansson and her partner, the graphic artist Tuulikki Pietilå, retreated to the tiny island of Klovharun, a rocky outcrop in the Gulf of Finland. Here, they lived, painted, and wrote, energised by the shifting seascapes and the island's austere charms. Notes from... Read More
Format: Paperback / softback
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Notes from an Island

Features Tove's seven page prose poem, The Island, published for the first time in the UK

Features Tove's seven page prose poem, The Island, published for the first time in the UK

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For thirty summers, Tove Jansson and her partner, the graphic artist Tuulikki Pietilå, retreated to the tiny island of Klovharun, a rocky outcrop in the Gulf of Finland. Here, they lived, painted, and wrote, energised by the shifting seascapes and the island's austere charms.

Notes from an Island offers both a memoir of and homage to this beloved island home. Tove's spare prose and Tuulikki's subtle washes and aquatints combine to form a work of meditative beauty.

This edition includes the first UK publication of Tove's acclaimed 1961 essay/prose poem, The Island.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781908745941

Publisher: Sort of Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 23 May 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Sort of Books

Edition: Main

Illustration: 24 full page sepia aquatints

Contributors:

  • Translated by Thomas Teal

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 192.0mm

Weight: 209g

Pages: 112

Collections

Biography & Memoir Musicians, Movie Stars & Creative Biographies Non-Fiction Tove Jansson Tuulikki Pietilå

About the Author

Tove Jansson (1914-2001) is best known as the creator of the world famous Moomin stories and as author of The Summer Book. For more than forty years she shared her life with the graphic artist and professor, Tuulikki Pietila (1917-2009). Klovharun was their summer island refuge.

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