The Guardian view on Moomintroll: a hero for our time | Editorial

Tove Jansson’s Moomin Valley is enchanting because it contains real dangers, not just cosinessAlthough the Swedish academy has awarded the Nobel prize for literature to seven people writing in Swedish, of all the world’s languages, it overlooked a woman who is almost certainly the best-loved Swedish-language author in the world, and one of the very best as well: Tove Jansson. Ms Jansson is mostly known for her creation of the Moomins, although she was a subtle and unflinching observe