Books by Boel Westin
“I loved Tove Jansson as a child. Then, when I read this biography, I realized that actually the Moomins started as Jansson’s political signature. When Hitler was annexing parts of Europe, she was drawing rude cartoons of him and signing them with a little Moomin…Her Moomin books are about political expression and not just domestic expression.” Read more...
Sue Prideaux, Biographer
Interviews where books by Boel Westin were recommended
Five Biographies of Artists, recommended by Sue Prideaux
From the Baroque painter who killed a man in Rome during the Counter-Reformation to the surrealist artist who left Britain and died in Mexico City in 2011, award-winning biographer Sue Prideaux talks to us about her favorite biographies of artists. Her new biography of Paul Gauguin, Wild Thing, is out this week and has been longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize.
