Sophia Jansson in 2010 for "The Guardian", when she explained the nature of her relationship with the rest of the family including her grandmother Signe and Tove's partner, Tuulikki. Jansson has been credited in such books as Tove Jansson's 1989 "Rent Spel" and Kate McLoughlin's and Malin Lidström Brock's 2007 "Tove Jansson Rediscovered" among others. Jansson has appeared as the host of 1998's short film, "Haru: The Island of the Solitary, Introduced by Sophia Jansson". She has also featured in Paul Gravett's 2006 documentary film, "Moomin's Memoirs," presented at the March 2007 Tove Jansson Conference in Oxford. In 2001, following the death
Languages of Finland The Swedish dialects spoken in Finland mainland are known as Finland-Swedish. There is a rich Finland-Swedish literature, including authors such as Tove Jansson, Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Edith Södergran and Zacharias Topelius. Runeberg is considered Finland's national poet and wrote the national anthem, "Vårt land", which was only later translated to Finnish. The Sami languages are a group of related languages spoken across Lapland. They are distantly related to Finnish. The three Sami languages spoken in Finland, Northern Sami, Inari Sami and Skolt Sami, have a combined native speaker population of roughly 1,800. Up to World War II, Karelian was spoken