Author talk with Elin Anna Labba in Umeå

For many years, Elin Anna Labba has worked to highlight and give voice to issues of great importance to nature, people, and social development in the north. 

In March, she will visit the SLU University Library in Umeå for a conversation with Lars Östlund, professor at the Department of Forest Ecology and Management. Together, they will discuss these topics from both historical and contemporary perspectives. The conversation will be held in English.

Elin Anna Labba made her literary debut in 2020 with The Rocks Will Echo Our Sorrow: The Forced Displacement of the Northern Sámi, which tells the story of the forced relocations of Sámi families that took place during much of the 20th century. She later published the novel The Home of the Drowned, based on stories of Sámi villages that were flooded during the expansion of hydropower.

In 2024, she was awarded an honorary doctorate by Luleå University of Technology, with the citation: “She engages readers in both literary and public education contexts, and reaches audiences both within and beyond the northern region”.

The event is organised by the SLU Library in collaboration with the Faculty of Forest Sciences.

• No registration is required and soup will be served to the first 50 people to arrive.