Skurken i Muminhuset Moomins and their friends used in the books are now on display at the Moomin Museum in Tampere. Although published in Swedish and Finnish, the book has never been published in English. The first official translation of "Villain in the Moominhouse" by Tove Jansson historian Ant O'Neill was premiered in a reading at the ArchWay With Words literary festival on 25 September 2017. Skurken i Muminhuset Skurken i Muminhuset, or "Villain in the Moominhouse", is a picture book from 1980 by the Finnish-Swedish author Tove Jansson, published in 1980. The final Moomin story written by Jansson, the story revolves around
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