Nina Afanasyeva

Nina Yeliseyevna Afanasyeva (; pseudonym, ; born February 1, 1939) is a Russian-Sami politician and language activist.

Biography Nina Yeliseyevna Afanasyeva was born on February 29, 1939, in the village of Varsino. Her parents were Sami, and she grew up with the Kildin Sámi language as her mother tongue.

In 1963, she completed her studies in pedagogy at the Institute of the Peoples of the North in Leningrad and worked until 1983 as a teacher of Russian language and literature as well as German in adult education in the cities of Apatity and Murmansk. The rationale for the joint award of Afanasyeva and Antonova was their leading role in the revitalization of the Kildin Sámi language as a teacher, politician, writer and translator.

Afanasyeva lives and works in Murmansk.

Selected works 1985 Саамско-русский словарь 1988 Saamʼ kīll: razrabotki po saamskomu jazyku dlja natsjalʼnoj shkoly 1990 Metoditsjeskoje rukovodstvo po obutsjeniju saamskomu jazyku: primernyje pourotsjnyje razrabotki k utsjebniku saamskogo jazyka dlja I-go klassa 1990, Metoditsjeskoje rukovodstvo po obutsjeniju saamskomu jazyku: primernyje pourotsjnyje razrabotki k utsjebniku saamskogo jazyka dlja 2-ogo klassa 1990, Metoditsjeskoje rukovodstvo po obutsjeniju saamskomu jazyku v natsjal’noj shkole 1990, Saamskij jazyk v kartinah: utsjebnik po razvitiju retsji v 1-om klasse saamskoj shkoly 1990, Sam’ kill: utsjebnik saamskogo jazyka dlja 2-go klassa 1991, Pudz’jench: kniga dlja dopolnitel’nogo tsjtenija v saamskoj natsional’noj shkole 1991, Sam’ kill: utsjebnik saamskogo jazyka dlja 3-ogo klassa 1991, Soagknehk’: saamsko-russkij i russko-saamskij slovar’ dlja natsjal’noj shkoly 1995, Pravila orfografii i punktuacii saamskogo jazyka 2000, "Hilferuf vom Rande des Eismeers", in: Die Saami, hrsg. von Wolf-Dieter Seiwert. Leipzig 2008, Ла̄зер ка̄ллса моаййнас. Кырьха лӣ Е̄льцэ Нӣна 2009, Severnoe sijanie: saamskij jazyk v kartinkah 2010, Самь-рушш соарнънэгк 2012, "Современное состояние саамского языка", in: Коренные народы евро-арктического региона

Awards 2012, International Sami Language Award Gollegiella (together with Aleksandra Andreevna Antonova)