Finland’s beloved Moomins are celebrating their 80th literary birthday this year, marking eight decades since their distinctive, hippopotamus-like figures first charmed global readers.
Author and illustrator Tove Jansson, a Swedish-speaking Finn who died in 2001, introduced the family in her 1945 debut, The Moomins and the Great Flood, featuring Moomintroll and Moominmamma’s search for the missing Moominpappa.
