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Ellen Marie Vars
Ellen Marie Vars (born 12 August 1957) is a Norwegian Sami writer. She was born in Láhpoluoppal in Kautokeino Municipality. She made her literary debut in 1986 with the youth novel ''Kátjá '', which came to be among the most read Sami books in Norway. Her novel ''Čábbámus iđitguovssu'' earned her the Saami Council Literature Prize in 2005. ''Čábbámus iđitguovssu'' has been translated into English as ''The most beautiful dawn'', and illustrated by Trygve Lund Guttormsen Trygve is a masculine given name most common in Norway. Trygve is derived from the Old Norse ''tryggr'', meaning "true, trustworthy", cognate with Old English '' treowe'', Old High German ''triuwe''. Gothic has ''triggws''. The Icelandic, Faroese .... She was the first chief editor of the Sami language newspaper , from its establishment in 1993. References 1957 births Living people People from Kautokeino Norwegian women novelists 20th-century Norwegian novelists 21st-century Norwegian no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Láhpoluoppal
Láhpoluoppal is a village in Kautokeino Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of .... The village is located at the southern end of the large lake Láhpojávri, along the Norwegian National Road 92. The small village lies on the vast Finnmarksvidda plateau, about half-way between the villages of Masi and Kautokeino. The Láhpoluoppal Chapel is located in the village. Láhpoluoppal has also been mentioned a few times in Honningsvågrevyen References Villages in Finnmark Kautokeino Populated places of Arctic Norway {{Finnmark-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kautokeino Municipality
Kautokeino (; ; ; ) is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Finnmark Counties of Norway, county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the Kautokeino (village), village of Guovdageaidnu/Kautokeino. Other villages include Láhpoluoppal and Masi, Norway, Máze. The municipality is the largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Kautokeino is the 236th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 2,848. The municipality's population density is and its population has decreased by 2.8% over the previous 10-year period. Guovdageainnu Municipality (Kautokeino) is one of two cultural centers of Northern Sápmi (area), Sápmi today (the other being the neighboring Kárášjoga Municipality). The most significant industries are reindeer herding, theatre/movie industry, and the public education system. Kautokeino is one of the #Climate, coldest places in the Nordics. General information The municipality of Kautokeino was esta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saami Council
The Saami Council is a voluntary, non-governmental organization of the Sámi people made up of nine Sámi member organizations from Finland, Norway, Russia, and Sweden. Since the founding of the Nordic Saami Council in 1956, among the first indigenous peoples' organizations, the Saami Council has actively dealt with Sámi public policy tasks. In 1992, when Russian Sámi groups joined the council, "Nordic" was removed from the council's name. The secretary was previously sited in both Helsinki and Utsjoki, Finland, but is now in Karasjok (village), Kárášjohka, Norway. The Saami Council is funded by a range of grants, and its engagements are based on decisions, statements, declarations, and political programs from the Saami Conference held every four years. Purpose The purposes of the Saami Council are to: * promote and safeguard Sámi rights and interest; * consolidate the feeling of affinity among the Sámi people; * attain recognition for the Sámi as one people and an indige ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saami Council Literature Prize
The Saami Council Literature Prize (, and ) is a literary prize for Saami literature first awarded by the Saami Council in 1994. At first, the prize was awarded annually, although starting in 2003, it has been awarded roughly once every two years with authors of children's and young adult literature being honored every other time.Rantala, LeifSámiráđđi 50 jagi p. 13. Accessed December 27, 2020 (in Northern Saami) In 2007, the total monetary value of the prize was 3,000 euro. Background The Saami Council decided to launch its own literary award in order to encourage people to write in the Saami languages. For this reason, all works nominated for the award must have been originally written in one of the Saami languages or translated from another language into one of the smaller Saami languages. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Store Norske Leksikon
The ''Great Norwegian Encyclopedia'' (, abbreviated ''SNL'') is a Norwegian-language online encyclopedia. It has several subdivisions, including the Norsk biografisk leksikon. The online encyclopedia is among the most-read Norwegian published sites, with up to 3.5 million unique visitors per month. Paper editions (1978–2007) The ''SNL'' was created in 1978, when the two publishing houses Aschehoug and Gyldendal merged their encyclopedias and created the company Kunnskapsforlaget. Up until 1978 the two publishing houses of Aschehoug and Gyldendal, Norway's two largest, had published ' and ', respectively. The respective first editions were published in 1906–1913 (Aschehoug) and 1933–1934 (Gyldendal). The slump in sales of paper-based encyclopedias around the turn of the 21st century hit Kunnskapsforlaget hard, but a fourth edition of the paper encyclopedia was secured by a grant of ten million Norwegian kroner from the foundation Fritt Ord in 2003. The f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trygve Lund Guttormsen
Trygve is a masculine given name most common in Norway. Trygve is derived from the Old Norse ''tryggr'', meaning "true, trustworthy", cognate with Old English '' treowe'', Old High German ''triuwe''. Gothic has ''triggws''. The Icelandic, Faroese and Old Norse form of the name is Tryggvi, e.g. Tryggve Olafsson. There were 5,951 people with the forename Trygve in Norway in 2009, declining to 5,432 in November 2015. The following people share the forename Trygve: * Trygve Bendiksby (1907–1992), Norwegian judge * Trygve Berge (born 1932), Norwegian Olympic downhill skier * Trygve Bjørgo (1916–1997), Norwegian poet and educator * Trygve Bornø (born 1942), Norwegian footballer * Trygve Braarud (1903–1985), Norwegian botanist * Trygve Bratteli (1910–1984), Norwegian Prime Minister * Trygve Brodahl (1905–1996), Norwegian cross-country skier * Trygve Brudevold (1920–2021), Norwegian bobsledder * Trygve Bruvik (born 1952), Norwegian engineer * Trygve Bull (1905–1999 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Áššu
''Áššu'' was a Northern Sámi-language newspaper published twice a week and distributed across Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia. In 2008, ''Áššu'' ceased publication to merge with the rival paper ''Min Áigi'' to form ''Ávvir''. History ''Áššu'' (the word ''áššu'' translates into English as "glowing embers") launched in October 1993 as a rival to ''Min Áigi'', which had launched earlier that year following the bankruptcy of the influential ''Sámi Áigi'' newspaper. Headquartered in Guovdageaidnu, Norway, the paper was published by Aviisa AS and co-owned by Nordavis AS. Despite having a readership across Sápmi, ''Áššu'' was positioned as a more local, traditional newspaper compared to the more political and nationally oriented ''Min Áigi''. Merger On 27 August 2007, ''Áššu'' and its rival ''Min Áigi'' announced plans to merge to create a Northern Sámi-language daily newspaper, ''Ávvir''. A week after ''Áššu'' published its final issue, ''Ávvir'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1957 Births
Events January * January 1 – The Saarland joins West Germany. * January 3 – Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch. * January 5 – South African player Russell Endean becomes the first batsman to be Dismissal (cricket), dismissed for having handled the ball, in Test cricket. * January 9 – British Prime Minister Anthony Eden resigns. * January 10 – Harold Macmillan becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. * January 11 – The African Convention is founded in Dakar. * January 14 – Kripalu Maharaj is named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher), after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars. * January 15 – The film ''Throne of Blood'', Akira Kurosawa's reworking of ''Macbeth'', is released in Japan. * January 20 ** Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula (captured from Egypt on October 29, 1956). * January 26 – The Ibirapuera Planetarium (the first in the Southern Hemisphere) is inaugurated in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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People From Kautokeino
The term "the people" refers to the public or common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. Concepts Legal Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination. Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Indigenous peoples (''peoples'', as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in ''indigenous people''), does not automatically provide for independent sovereignty and therefore secession. Indeed, judge Ivor Jennings identified the inherent problems in the right of "peoples" to self-determination, as i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norwegian Women Novelists
Norwegian, Norwayan, or Norsk may refer to: *Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe *Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway *Demographics of Norway *Norwegian language, including the two official written forms: **Bokmål, literally "book language", used by 85–90% of the population of Norway **Nynorsk, literally "New Norwegian", used by 10–15% of the population of Norway *Norwegian Sea Norwegian or may also refer to: Norwegian *Norwegian Air Shuttle, an airline, trading as Norwegian **Norwegian Long Haul, a defunct subsidiary of Norwegian Air Shuttle, flying long-haul flights *Norwegian Air Lines, a former airline, merged with Scandinavian Airlines in 1951 *Norwegian coupling, used for narrow-gauge railways *Norwegian Cruise Line, a cruise line *Norwegian Elkhound, a canine breed. * Norwegian Forest cat, a domestic feline breed *Norwegian Red, a breed of dairy cattle *Norwegian Township, Pennsylvania, USA Norsk * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
