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Elin Anna Labba is a Sámi journalist and writer from Sápmi, the regional homeland of Sweden's indigenous Sami people.
Elin's nonfiction book The Rocks Will Echo Our Sorrow, the forced displacement of the Northern Sami blends history, memoir, poetry and images to depict a hard life and give voice to long-held grief.
Labba comes from a family that lived on seized land, and her writing echoes the displacement of other indigenous people around the world.
Labba has edited several Sámi magazines and has advocated to strengthen and emphasise Sámi literature.
As a writer she has won several prizes. She participated with Greta Thunberg on The Climate Book, and some of her recent writing has focused on the effect of climate change on indigenous life in the Arctic region.
Elin Anna Labba will be appearing at the upcoming Auckland Writers Festival as part of a delegation of Nordic writers.
