Inger-Mari Aikio-Arianaick

Inger-Mari Aikio-Arianaick (born January 14, 1961 in Utsjoki, Finland) is a Sámi poet who writes in Northern Sámi. In addition to writing poetry, she has worked as a reporter, photographer and proofreader for the newspaper Sámi Áigi from 1982 to 1988, after which she went to work as a news journalist for YLE Sámi Radio.

After graduating from high school in 1980, Aikio-Arianaick studied languages at the University of Oulu. In 1992, she passed the official translator exams from Northern Sámi to Finnish and from Finnish to Northern Sámi.

Aikio-Arianaick has also published seven collections of poetry and children's books. Her poems have been translated in English, German, Finnish, Swedish, Hungarian.

Works

  • Gollebiekkat almmi dievva (1989)
  • Jiehki vuolde ruonas giđđa (1993)
  • Silkeguobbara lákca (1995)
  • Máilmmis dása (2001)
  • Official website
  • "Inger-Mari Aikio-Arianaick | Finnland. Cool". finnlandcool.fi. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
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