Swedish History

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  

  The Indigenous Sami Culture Shaped this Novelist's Fiction

  Ann-Helén Laestadius grew up among the Sámi, an Indigenous people living near the Arctic Circle, in Europe. Her fiction has brought the long-running conflict between the Sami and the Swedish government, and the racism and violence endured by the Sami, to the forefront of public debate.