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Kao mlada ilustratorka Tuve Janson je nacrtala jedan mali lik koji liči na današnjeg Mumina. Koristila ga je kao svoj potpis i na taj način je nastao naš omiljeni junak. Već šest decenija Mumin zabavlja čitaoce svih generacija kako u Skandinaviji tako i širom sveta. Kao strip prvi put se pojavio u britanskom listu The Evening News sredinom 1950-ih godina. Od tada Muminova popularnost ne jenjava. U Muminovoj dolini žive raznorazna stvorenja: simpatična, čudesna, zanimljiva a ponekad i strašna. Uzbudljiva putovanja i potresni dogadjaji se smenjuju, ali na kraju se sve završava srećno kada se junaci vrate kući kod mame Mumin, koja ih spremno dočekuje toplim pićem i kolačima. U godini na razmeđi dva velika jubileja – 100 godina od rođenja Tuve Janson i 70 godina od objavljivanja prve knjige o Muminu, Komiko, u okviru edicije “Meridijani”, objavljuje svoju prvu kolekciju stripova o verovatno najpoznatijem liku skandinavske fikcije. Knjiga “Mumun: velike i male pustolovine” sadrži 6 klasičnih priča o Muminu, premijerno objavljenih na srpskom jeziku, hronološki kako su nastajale.
Authors
Tove Jansson was born and died in Helsinki, Finland. As a Finnish citizen whose mother tongue was Swedish, she was part of the Swedish-speaking Finns minority. Thus, all her books were originally written in Swedish. Although known first and foremost as an author, Tove Jansson considered her careers as author and painter to be of equal importance. Tove Jansson wrote and illustrated her first Moomin book, The Moomins and the Great Flood (1945), during World War II. She said later that the war had depressed her, and she had wanted to write something naive and innocent. Besides the Moomin novels and short stories, Tove Jansson also wrote and illustrated four original and highly popular picture books. Jansson's Moomin books have been translated into 33 languages.
