Tove Jansson

Tove Jansson was a Finland-Swedish author, novelist, comic strip writer, painter and illustrator, and she wrote the Moomin novels, beginning with The Moomins and the Great Flood in 1945. Comet in Moominland, the second Moomin book, follows Moomintroll and his friend Sniff on a journey to an observatory to learn what a comet means for their valley. Her adult fiction includes The Summer Book, A Winter Book, Fair Play and The True Deceiver, and she received the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1966 for her children's writing.