Ingá Elin Marakatt

Sáve from Sápmi

Sáve fra Sápmi (NO); Sáve Sápmi

NORLA Selected Title
Genre: Children and Young Adult
Category: Novel
Publisher: Davvi Girji
Year: 2026
Pages: 156
ISBN: 9788232905034
English sample translation available

We get to know 12-year-old Sáve and Nils who live in Ađevuopmi. Here the traditional Sami way of life meets the modern one. Suddenly everything changes in the small village when mother loses her job. The wolverine is wreaking havoc on the reindeer herd and it is snowing more than usual. How will the reindeer survive the winter? Sáve’s mother Ellen Marizza has started blogging, and soon social media takes up all her time. Sáve wants everything to be as it was, but everything only gets worse.

Photo: Olof Sarri

Ingá Elin Marakatt (bor 1989) is a Sami writer, from Áđevuopmi in Sweden. She is involved in society, is a reindeer herder, journalist, and author. She has a bachelor’s degree in society and culture, Cultural analysis in Sweden, from Umeå University. She has participated in the Sami Authors’ Association and the Sami Parliament’s author training 2017-2019. The author was awarded the “Tage and Lilly Frids scholarship for young authors” in 2019, for her debut novel Sáve Sápmi.

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