Inger-Mari Aikio
Author

Poems

Máilmmis dása (excerpt) northern sami

Translations: de en fi no

3 haikus (from polar night) northern sami

Translations: de en fi

boares gussa northern sami

Translations: en es fi

luovus northern sami

Translations: en es fi zh

oskkáldas northern sami

Translations: en es fi

boalddáhat northern sami

Translations: en es fi

vuostegulgii northern sami

Translations: en es fi

čuođis northern sami

Translations: en es fi

[látnjá ii jeara diimmu] northern sami

Translations: ar en es it no sw zh

[divtte liikkiideame] northern sami

Translations: ar en es it sw

[sisilialaš] northern sami

Translations: ar et en es sv sw

Inger-Mari Aikio
Author

About

* 14.01.1961, Utsjoki (North Sami: Ohcejohka), Finland
lives in: Pulmankijärvi (Buolbmatjávri), Finland

Inger-Mari "Ima" Aikio (* 14 January 1961 in Utsjoki, North Sami Ohcejohka) is a Finnish author of Sami language. Inger-Mari Aikio grew up in the region of Lake Pulmankijärvi and studied languages at the University of Oulu. In 1992 she completed a translation course for North Sami and Finnish. For twenty years she worked as a radio journalist for YLE-Sámi Radios. Today Aikio works only as a writer and translator. She is one of the most productive Sami poets of our time. She has published seven volumes of Sami poetry and children's books. Her poems have been translated into English, German, Finnish, Swedish and Hungarian. Her poetry collection Mailmmis dása (2001) was nominated for the Nordic Council's Literature Prize in 2004.

Aikio`s poetry addresses a new relationship both to the Sami and to the role of women. Her texts therefore turn more to the private and individual and reflect the sexuality of the woman as well as the love relationship between man and woman. In her poems she also deals with the culturally foreign and the role as mother, wife and daughter-in-law based on personal experiences.