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Risten Sokki

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Risten Sokki

Norway

Risten Sokki (born 1954) is a Northern Sámi author from Kautokeino. Sokki made her debut with the bilingual poetry collection Bonán Bonán Soga Suonaid (Twisting Turning: The Sinews of Kinship) in 1996. The poetry collection was nominated for the Nordic Literary Prize (Sámi Language Region) in 1997....

The book deals with kinship and its complex ramifications both past and present. Her collection of novellas, Geadgeloddi (The Stone Bird), was published in Spring 2018 and translated into Norwegian by Laila Stien (as Steinfuglen) in 2020. The ten novellas touch on love, grief, abuse, child adoption, and children growing up in an orphanage, some of whom return to Sápmi as adults.

Christian Pietzsch, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The Wolfskin

By Risten Sokki

When the forested valleys in Russia start filling up with snow, the wolf begins its journey from the south toward the plains in the north.

Translated from North Sámi by Olivia Lasky

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The Wolfskin