Thomas Teal
Thomas Teal has translated more than twenty books from Swedish, including at least six by Tove Jansson, whom he knew when he lived in Finland in the 1960s. In 2011, he won the Best Translated Book Award and has won the Bernard Shaw Translation Prize twice, all three for works by Jansson.
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Notes from an Island
Tove Jansson & Tuulikki Pieitilä
‘When we woke up, the whole ocean was full of broken ice.’
An excerpt from Notes from an Island, with artwork by Tuulikki Pietilä and memoir by Tove Jansson, translated by Thomas Teal.