Risten Sokki

Ristin Sokki (born 1954), sometimes written Risten Sokki, is a Sámi writer and educator in Norway. Her works of poetry and short fiction, written in the Northern Sámi language, draw from her family history and her experiences in Norway's far north. In 1998, her poetry collection Bonán bonán soga suonaid was the Sámi nominee for the Nordic Council Literature Prize.

Biography Sokki was born in 1954 in Kautokeino, a Northern Sámi village in Norway. She is descended from Aslak Hætta, a Sámi revolutionary leader who was executed in the 1850s, and she has grappled with this legacy in her work.

Sokki's work often deals with love, grief, abuse, and the traumas of childhood.

Her other books include the children's book Mu ártegis eallin (2007), which won a Nordic children's literature competition given by the Nordic Council of Ministers and was translated into Southern Sámi, Lule Sámi, Norwegian, Greenlandic, and Faroese. She works in her hometown of Kautokeino as a schoolteacher at the , Norway's only Sámi-language vocational school.