Moominvalley in November series; but all good things must come to an end, and I wouldn't be pleased at all if anyone else dared to pick up the series in her wake.". The screenwriter and children’s author Frank Cottrell Boyce – another noted Tove Jansson enthusiast – describes the novel as ‘the wisest and most moving book about mourning I’ve ever read’. Moominvalley in November Moominvalley in November (Swedish: "Sent i november", 'Late in November'; Finnish: "Muumilaakson marraskuu") is the ninth and final book in the Moomin series by Finnish author Tove Jansson, and was first published in both her native Swedish and
Jansson Jansson Jansson is a Swedish patronymic surname, meaning "son of Jan", derived from Johannes, a cognate of John. There are alternate Belgian, German, Dutch, Danish, Latvian and Norwegian spellings. Jansson is rare as a given name. As of 2014, 86.2% of all known bearers of the surname "Jansson" were residents of Sweden, 5.1% of Finland, 2.9% of the United States and 1.7% of Norway. In Sweden, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:199) in the following counties: In Finland, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:1,893) in the following regions: Jansson, a