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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.
Dec 3, 1971 · Ann-Helén Laestadius is the author of Stolen (4.07 avg rating, 11062 ratings, 1292 reviews, published 2021), Straff (4.17 avg rating, 1567 ratings, 137 r...
Stolen by Ann-Helén Laestadius - * NOW A NETFLIX FILM * AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * A spellbinding Swedish novel that follows a young indigenous woman as...
Interview. ‘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...
Monika Ulrika Ann-Helén Laestadius (folkbokförd Monika Ulrika Ann-Helen Laestadius), född 3 december 1971 [1] i Kiruna, är en svensk-samisk journalist och författare. Hon utsågs till ledamot i regeringens läsdelegation 28 oktober 2016.
Jan 27, 2023 · Stolen — Ann-Helén Laestadius’s moving portrait of the plight of the Sámi The killing of a precious deer calf in the Swedish Arctic brings home the struggles of the region’s indigenous people
Dec 21, 2023 · Ann-Helén Laestadius is Sámi and of Tornedalian descent (two of Sweden’s national minorities) and her debut adult novel draws on real-life events that have occurred in Sápmi for years. Already an international bestseller, Stolen is being adapted into a film for Netflix scheduled for 2024.
Mar 30, 2023 · In Stöld (Stolen), Ann-Helén Laestadius depicted hate crime against a contemporary Sámi community. In Straff (Punishment), she steps back into twentieth-century history to show how the state itself once discriminated against those it defined as ‘genuine’ Sámi (reindeer herders) by making them send their children away to board at ‘nomad schools’.
