Elin Anna Labba

Elin Anna Labba (; born 30 November 1980) is a Sámi author and journalist from Sweden. She has won multiple prizes for her first book The Rocks Will Echo Our Sorrow: The Forced Displacement of the Northern Sámi , which describes the forced migration of the Sámi from Norway to Sweden from 1919 to 1920.

Early years and education Elin Anna Labba was born on 30 November 1980 in Kiruna, Sweden, where she also grew up. Her grandmother was Forest Sámi originally from Malå. She moved to Gothenburg to study journalism at the Department of Journalism, Media and Communication at the University of Gothenburg.

Career Since she graduated, Labba worked as the editor-in-chief of Nuorat and as the director of communications at Laponiatjuottjudus. Currently, she is employed as a project manager at the writer's center Tjállegoahte in Jokkmokk, Sweden.

In 2020, she debuted as an author with the Swedish-language book , which was translated and released the same year in Northern Sámi under the title . It was translated from Swedish to Norwegian Bokmål and published in 2021 as .

Personal life She and her husband Ol-Duommá have three children. As of December 2023, they lived in Saltdal.

Awards In 2020, Labba was awarded the August Prize for her book . In 2021, she won the Norrland Literature Prize for the same book. In 2022, she was awarded the Hedevind Plaquette.