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Blue Hyacinth, 1939, oil painting, 55.5 x 47 cm, private collection. Photo courtesy of Finnish National Gallery / Hannu Aaltonen, © ToveJansson Estate. Jansson ...

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Nathaniel Ian Miller is a farmer, former newspaper journalist, and the author of the critically-acclaimed debut novel The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven which was longlisted for the Center for Fiction ...