Elin Anna Labba is a Sámi journalist and writer from Sápmi, Sweden. She has previously been the editor of several Sámi magazines and working for the indigenous Sámi Authors’ Centre, with a mission to strengthen and emphasise Sámi literature. As a writer she has won several prizes for the nonfiction book The Rocks Will Echo Our Sorrow, a blend of historical reportage, memoir, and lyrical reimagining where Labba travels to the lost homeland of her ancestors to tell of the forced removal of the Sámi in the early twentieth century. Through stories, photographs, letters, and joik lyrics she gathers a chorus echoing the displacements of other Indigenous people around the world as it depicts the singular experience of the Northern Sámi.

In 2024 she made her debut as a novelist with The Home of the Drowned: a powerful, haunting portrait of a mother and a daughter, living by a lake where a company has decided to dam the lake to expand the hydropower production. The novel rises from true stories of the Sámi people, collected on Labba's homeland as she hails from a family that lived on a land that was seized by the authorities.

Labba also writes essays, and was a contributor to The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg. Her recent writing is concerned with how climate change has affected indigenous life in the Arctic region.

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