''The Sculptor's Daughter'' (Swedish: ''Bildhuggarens dotter'') is a memoir by Tove Jansson, known for her Moomintroll books, published in Swedish in 1968. It was her first book for adults.

Synopsis

''The Sculptor's Daughter'' gives an insight into Tove Jansson's own childhood world. It describes, in novel-like chapters, the artists' home at Skatudden in

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and summer life in the

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. She recreates an outward bourgeois and bohemian environment that is largely dominated by her father, the sculptor Viktor Jansson. But mainly she captures the child's experience of existence – the mysterious and the magical.

Reception

Jansson's book has become one of the classic depictions of childhood in Swedish-language literature.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sculptor's Daughter 1968 non-fiction books Works by Tove Jansson Memoirs