WRITER

Tove Jansson

1914 - 2001

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Tove Marika Jansson (Fenno-Swedish pronunciation: [ˈtuːve ˈjɑːnsːon] ; 9 August 1914 – 27 June 2001) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish author, novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author. Brought up by artistic parents, Jansson studied art from 1930 to 1938 in Helsinki, Stockholm, and Paris. She held her first solo art exhibition in 1943. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tove Jansson has received more than 1,876,825 page views. Her biography is available in 71 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 67 in 2019). Tove Jansson is the 185th most popular writer (down from 138th in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Finland (down from 4th in 2019) and the most popular Finnish Writer.

Tove Jansson is most famous for her Moomin series of children's books. The Moomins are a family of white, round-bodied, hippopotamus-like creatures who live in the forests of Finland.

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  • 1.9M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 72.95

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 71

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.41

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.32

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Tove Jansson ranks 185 out of 7,302. Before her are Osamu Dazai, André Breton, Nizami Ganjavi, John Steinbeck, Aldous Huxley, and Constantine VII. After her are Dale Carnegie, Murasaki Shikibu, Stanisław Lem, Lope de Vega, Eckhart Tolle, and Janusz Korczak.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Tove Jansson ranks 4. Before her are Louis de Funès, Yuri Andropov, and Hedy Lamarr. After her are Thor Heyerdahl, Tenzing Norgay, Marguerite Duras, Jiang Qing, Michael Wittmann, Octavio Paz, Julio Cortázar, and Alec Guinness. Among people deceased in 2001, Tove Jansson ranks 3. Before her are Anthony Quinn, and George Harrison. After her are Josef Bican, Didi, Claude Shannon, Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary, Jorge Amado, Jack Lemmon, Herbert A. Simon, Léopold Sédar Senghor, and Ahmad Shah Massoud.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Tove Jansson ranks 5 out of 751. Before her are Alvar Aalto (1898), Jean Sibelius (1865), Simo Häyhä (1905), and Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (1867). After her are Sauli Niinistö (1948), Paavo Nurmi (1897), Frans Eemil Sillanpää (1888), Mika Waltari (1908), Aki Kaurismäki (1957), Tarja Halonen (1943), and Urho Kekkonen (1900).

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Among WRITERS In Finland

Among writers born in Finland, Tove Jansson ranks 1. After her are Frans Eemil Sillanpää (1888), Mika Waltari (1908), Mikael Agricola (1510), Arto Paasilinna (1942), Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804), Aleksis Kivi (1834), Zachris Topelius (1818), Eino Leino (1878), Väinö Linna (1920), Juhani Aho (1861), and Minna Canth (1844).

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