Author and illustrator Jansson found her dream island when she was in her ’50s. “Klovharun in the Finnish archipelago is tiny – some 6,000 sq metres – and isolated, ‘a rock in the middle of nowhere,’ according to Jansson’s niece, Sophia. It has scarcely any foliage, no running water and no electricity. Yet for Jansson, it was an oasis. For 18 years she and her partner Tuulikki Pietilä spent long summers there, heading out from Helsinki as soon as the ice broke in April, leaving only in early October. The island meant ‘privacy, remoteness, intimacy, a rounded whole without bridges or fences.'” – The Guardian (UK)
