She said later that the war had depressed her, and she had wanted to write something naïve and innocent. She wrote and illustrated her first Moomin book, The Moomins and the Great Flood, in 1945, during World War II. She worked as an illustrator and cartoonist for the Swedish-language satirical magazine Garm from the 1930s to 1953. She displayed a number of artworks in exhibitions during the 30s and early 40s, and her first solo exhibition was held in 1943. Jansson studied at University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, in Stockholm in 1930–33, the Graphic School of the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in 1933–1937, and finally at L'École d'Adrien Holy and L'École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1938. She also sold drawings that were published in magazines in the 1920s. At age 14, Jansson wrote and illustrated her first picture book Sara och Pelle och näckens bläckfiskar ( Sara and Pelle and Neptune's Children). Whilst their home was in Helsinki, the family spent many of their summers in a rented cottage on an island near Borgå, 50 km east of the capital. She had two younger brothers, Per Olov and Lars, who became a photographer and an author and cartoonist, respectively. Jansson was born in Helsinki to artist parents Viktor Jansson, a sculptor, and Signe Hammarsten-Jansson, a graphic designer and illustrator. She is most well known as the creator of The Moomins. Tove Jansson (9 August 1914 – 27 June 2001) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish author, novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author.

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