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Ann-Helén Laestadius

アン＝ヘレン・ラエスタディウス

Ann-Helén Laestadius

Aliases: Monika Ulrika Ann-Helén Laestadius

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1971-12-03 （Jukkasjärvi）
Nationality
Sweden
Languages
Swedish
Residence History
Jukkasjärvi (near Kiruna) → Kiruna → Solna near Stockholm

Career

Occupations
journalist, bestselling writer
Active Years
1990-

Awards

August Prize
2016
Work: Ten Past One
Category: children and young adult
Organization: August Prize
Result: winner
Norrland Literature Prize
2017
Work: Ten Past One
Organization: Norrländska Litteratursällskapet
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Sms från Soppero

2007 children's literature

Her first children's novel.

rural life

Ten Past One

2016 children's and young adult literature

It is about the collective grief of a changing community, about civil society and local politics, and about love and friendship.

changing communitypoliticsfriendship

Stolen

2021 novel

A young Sámi woman fights for survival amid discrimination and threats to reindeer herding.

Sámi cultureindigenous rightsdiscrimination
Adaptations
  • [film] Stolen (2024)
Translations
  • English (translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles, 2023)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
energetic proseintertwines place, politics and psychology
Recurring Motifs
Sámi identitystruggles of minorities

Legacy

Swedish Sámi journalist and bestselling author. Won the August Prize for children's literature with Ten Past One, and her adult novel Stolen became a #1 bestseller and Netflix film.

In Popular Culture

  • Netflix film Stolen (2024)

Quotes

  • It is about the collective grief of a changing community, about civil society and local politics, and about love and friendship. In energetic prose, Laestadius intertwines place, politics and psychology.
    Source: August Prize jury (2016)

Trivia

  • Of Sámi and Tornedalian descent, two of Sweden's national minorities.
  • First adult novel Stolen became a #1 paperback bestseller.