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 captured on several hours of film, shot by Pietilä. Several documentaries have been made of this footage, the latest being "Haru, yksinäinen saari" ("Haru, the lonely island") (1998) and "Tove ja Tooti Euroopassa" ("Tove and Tooti in Europe") (2004). Jansson died on 27 June 2001 at the age of 86 from cancer and is buried with her parents and younger brother Lars. She is buried in the Hietaniemi Cemetery in Helsinki. Tove Jansson worked as an illustrator and cartoonist for the Swedish-language satirical magazine "Garm" from the 1930s to 1953. One of her political cartoons achieved a brief international fame: