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 Flood". The next two books, "Comet in Moominland" and "Finn Family Moomintroll", published in 1946 and 1948 respectively, were highly successful in sales, adding to sales of the first book. For her work as a children's writer she received the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1966. Starting with the semi-autobiographical "Bildhuggarens dotter" ("Sculptor's Daughter") in 1968, Jansson wrote six novels, including the admired "Sommarboken" ("The Summer Book"), and five books of short stories for adults. Tove Jansson was born in Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire. Her family, part of the Swedish-speaking minority of Finland, was an artistic one: