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
Tove Jansson is a work of charm, subtlety and simplicity, describing the summer stay on an island of a young girl and her grandmother. The girl is modelled on her niece, Sophia Jansson; the girl's father on Sophia's father, Lars Jansson; and the grandmother on Tove's mother Signe. Although she became known first and foremost as an author, Tove Jansson considered her careers as author and painter to be of equal importance. She painted her whole life, changing style from the classical impressionism of her youth to the highly abstract modernist style of her later years. Jansson displayed a number of artworks