The Sun, My Father by Nils-Aslak Valkeapää

The Sun, My Father

Nils-Aslak Valkeapää with Lars Nordström (Translator), Harald Gaski (Translator), Ralph Salisbury (Translator)

136 pages first pub 1988 (editions)

fiction poetry reflective slow-paced

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Nils-Aslak Valkeapaa was born in 1943 to a reindeer-breeding family in Sapmi, homeland of the Sami, whom outsiders have called "Laps" or "Laplanders". A Finnish citizen, he lives in both Norway and Finland. Much of traditional Sami life was nomadi...

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