Happy Sámi National Day!
Today is the Sámi National Day, and everyone at NORLA offers our warmest congratulations to all our Sámi friends and the Sámi people:
Læhkoeh biejjine – Vuorbbe biejvijn – Lihkku beivviin – Gratulerer med dagen!
We are pleased to celebrate with a rerun of beautiful Sámi poems from our Poem of the Week series.
Mary A. Sombán Mari
May the Northern Lights
Inga Ravna Eira
The Gods
Paulus Utsi
The Shadow
Rauni Magga Lukkari
Fall Freezes by the Thicket
Nils-Aslak Valkeapää
Unborn Reindeer Calf
Synnøve Persen
I Am Swimming
Niko Valkeapää
I have given my heart
Read more
Learn about the Sámi National Day.
And read about Sámi languages.
Last autumn there were two Sámi books among NORLA’s Selected Titles:
Kathrine Nedrejord: The Sami Problem (original title: Sameproblemet). Read our interview with the author here
Kirste Paltto and Sunna Kitti (ill.): Strange Happenings at Wild Lake (Original title in Northern Sámi: Luohtojávrri oainnáhusat. Title in Norwegian: Underlige hendelser ved villmarkssjøen, tr. by Marit Kirsten Guttorm and Inga Ravna Eira). Read our interview with Kirste Pallto here.
There is a joint Sámi bibliography for Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia available courtesy of the Norwegian National Library.
See presentations of Sámi (or Sámi themed) books in Books from Norway.
And see the book covers of Sámi literature translated into other languages through NORLA’s translation subsidy at our Flickr account.
NORLA’s complete Poem of the Week series is available here.
