Literature|Tempaus is a continuation of the reading marathon of the Unknown Soldier organized on Independence Day 2024 in a live video broadcast.
Public radio tells to organize between January and February 2026 Tove Jansson’s reading marathon of Moomin books.
Tempaus is a continuation of the reading marathon organized on Independence Day 2024, where dozens of readers read aloud Väinö Linnan a novel The unknown soldier in a live video broadcast.
Excluding the picture books, Tove Jansson (1914–2001) wrote nine Moomin-themed books, and they are read by more than a hundred readers during the weekend. They have already promised to become readers, for example Kaija Koo, Alma Pöysti, Lauri Haav, Pekka Kuusisto, Elina Knihtilä and Christopher Strandberg. Yle is also asking the public for suggestions as readers of the live broadcast.
The first of the Moomin books The little troll and the great flood eli The Moomins and the Great Flood is read in Swedish, and the first voice of the entire reading task is Tove Jansson herself.
He has read aloud all the Moomin books and, for example, The summer book. You can listen to Jansson’s lecture Yle Arena. The other eight Moomin books of the reading marathon are read in Finnish.