Optegnelser fra en ø er den finlandssvenske forfatter Tove Janssons selvbiografiske værk om at leve, skabe og elske i en voksen alder, illustreret af livspartneren og kunstneren Tuulikki Pietilä. I 1963 bygger Tove og Tuulikki et hus på øen Klovharun langt ude i den finske skærgård, og huset bliver deres hjem hver sommer de næste tredive år. Her lever de i ét med naturen, mens de udfolder deres kreativitet. Igennem optegnelserne tager Tove Jansson (1914-2001) os med til skærgårdens både barske og idylliske natur og giver et unikt indblik i livet på øen og forholdet til Tuulikki. Optegnelser fra en ø, der er fra 1996, udkommer her for første gang på dansk. Den er med illustrationer af Tuulikki Pietilä (1917-2009).
Author
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.
