The land of the Sámi has been the fjords, moors, and tundra of northern Scandinavia for thousands of years. Timimie Märaks uses spoken word art to update oral storytelling traditions and is an activist for indigenous land rights. Linnea Axelsson's verse novel »Ædnan« tells the story of how two Sámi families fight against colonial trauma and violence against nature for over a century. The authors will read and talk about care, non-human agency, and social imprinting in the climate crisis.  

A cooperation between the Cluster of Excellence »Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective« and the internationales literaturfestival berlin.

With: Linnea Axelsson, Timimie Märak
Moderation: Saskia Vogel.
The event is held in English.

Linnea Axelsson *1980 is a Sami-Swedish writer. She was awarded the August Prize in 2018 for her first novel-in-verse »Ædnan« [tr. Saskia Vogel], which is the first of her works to be translated into English in 2024.   

Timimie Gassko Märak is a poet, feminist, Sámi queer activist and was Poet in Residence at the Venice Art Biennale 2022. Märak's poetry is a combination of deep roots and connections, read at the pace of the big city.

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