Ellen Marie Vars (born 12 August 1957) is a Norwegian Sami writer. She was born in

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 is ...

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 villag ...

. 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 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 ...

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.

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1957 births Living people People from Kautokeino Norwegian women novelists 20th-century Norwegian novelists 21st-century Norwegian novelists Norwegian Sámi-language writers 21st-century Norwegian women writers 20th-century Norwegian women writers Norwegian Sámi writers {{Norway-novelist-stub