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Monika Ulrika Ann-Helén Laestadius (born 1971) is a Swedish Sámi journalist and bestselling writer. In 2016, her novel Tio över ett (Ten Past One) won the Swedish August Prize as the best submission in the children and young adult category.
Jan 30, 2023 · Ann-Helén Laestadius grew up among the Sámi, an Indigenous people living near the Arctic Circle, in Europe. Her novel, “Stolen,” a success in her native Sweden, reflects that culture to a broad...
Feb 3, 2021 · Based on real events, Ann-Helén Laestadius’s award-winning novel Stolen is part coming-of-age story, part love song to a disappearing natural world, and part electrifying countdown to a dramatic resolution—a searing depiction of a forgotten part of Sweden.
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Based on real events, Ann-Helén Laestadius’s award-winning novel Stolen is part coming-of-age story, part love song to a disappearing natural world, and part electrifying countdown to a dramatic resolution—a searing depiction of a forgotten part of Sweden.
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- January 31, 2023
‘More and more Sami authors are telling their stories’: Ann-Helén Laestadius on writing about her Indigenous community. The author’s bestselling novel ‘Stolen’ is now being made into a Netflix...
Jan 31, 2023 · It’s against this backdrop that Swedish Sámi author Ann-Helén Laestadius sets her real-life-based coming-of-age novel, Stolen. The picturesque snowy landscape of northern Sweden seems a peaceful, idyllic backdrop for a childhood, but when nine-year-old Elsa witnesses the brutal murder of her pet reindeer Nástegallu it’s not only the ...
- Rachel Willson-Broyles
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Jan 31, 2023 · by Ann-Helén Laestadius ; translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 31, 2023. A revelatory account of not-well-known assaults on the rights of an Indigenous group.
