Ristin Sokki (born 1954), sometimes written Risten Sokki, is a Sámi writer and educator in Norway. Her works of poetry and short fiction, written in the Northern Sámi language, draw from her family history and her experiences in Norway's far north. In 1998, her poetry collection Bonán bonán soga suonaid was the Sámi nominee for the Nordic Council Literature Prize.
Biography
editSokki was born in 1954 in Kautokeino, a Northern Sámi village in Norway.[1][2][3] She is descended from Aslak Hætta, a Sámi revolutionary leader who was executed in the 1850s, and she has grappled with this legacy in her work.[4][5]
Sokki's work often deals with love, grief, abuse, and the traumas of childhood.[2] She writes in Sámi, specifically Northern Sámi.[6][2][3] Her debut book, the bilingual Sámi-Norwegian poetry collection Bonán bonán soga suonaid, was published in 1996.[2] It was nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 1998, representing the Sámi cultural region[3][7]
Her other books include the children's book Mu ártegis eallin (2007), which won a Nordic children's literature competition given by the Nordic Council of Ministers and was translated into Southern Sámi, Lule Sámi, Norwegian, Greenlandic, and Faroese.[1][3][6] She also published a short story collection, titled Geadgeloddi, in 2018.[2]
In addition, Sokki has written a book on Sámi cooking and contributed to several grade school textbooks for Sámi speakers.[2][8] She works in her hometown of Kautokeino as a schoolteacher at the Sámi Upper Secondary and Reindeer Husbandry School, Norway's only Sámi-language vocational school.[8]
References
edit- ^ a b "Sokki, Risten 1954-". WorldCat. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
- ^ a b c d e f "Risten Sokki". 16th International Conference on the Short Story in English. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
- ^ a b c d Fredriksen, Lill Tove (2019-12-19), "Risten Sokki", Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian Bokmål), retrieved 2021-03-04
- ^ Kent, Neil (2019). The Sami Peoples of the North : a Social and Cultural History. Oxford: C. Hurst and Company (Publishers) Limited. ISBN 978-1-78738-173-5. OCLC 1089015671.
- ^ Rethinking National Literatures and the Literary Canon in Scandinavia. Ann-Sofie Lönngren, Heidi Grönstrand, Dag Heede, Anne Heith. Newcastle upon Tyne. 2015. ISBN 978-1-4438-8503-4. OCLC 926092769.
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- ^ Hiller, Jürgen (2019). Der Literaturpreis des Nordischen Rates Tendenzen - Praktiken - Strategien - Konstruktionen. Herbert Utz Verlag. München. ISBN 978-3-8316-4794-1. OCLC 1119472311.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ a b "Risten Sokki". Litfest Bergen. Retrieved 2021-03-04.