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Saturday, January 24, 2026

NORLA and Are Tjihkkom, Sámi Translator and Publisher

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  Are Tjihkkom, Sámi Translator and Publisher   Back in the late seventies, relatively few people outside Norway knew much about Norwegian a...
Monday, January 5, 2026

Best Indie Historical Fiction of 2025: Reindeer of Chinese Gardens

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Every December, Kirkus Reviews publishes a list of its choices for the one hundred best indie titles in different categories.  I'm rea...
Sunday, December 14, 2025

Johan Turi’s Muitalus sámiid birra in the Swedish Cultural Canon

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   Still from  The Seventh Seal  In late August this year the Swedish government published a 300 page document titled A Cultural Canon for...
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Barbara Sjoholm
I've traveled in and written about the Nordic countries and Sápmi for many years, and have published numerous books about the North, including translations, travel narratives, and cultural history. Most recently I translated By the Fire, a collection of Sámi folktales, many told by women, collected and illustrated by the Danish ethnographer and artist, Emilie Demant Hatt (1873-1958). The University of Minnesota Press will publish a new book in February, 2023, From Lapland to Sápmi: Collecting and Returning Sámi Craft and Culture, with stories of Sámi objects and their makers over the centuries. www.barbarasjoholm.com has more about all my books. I also write mysteries under the name Barbara Wilson. See www.barbarawilsonmysteries for more about them.
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