Sigri Mitra Gaïni

Sigri Mitra Gaïni (Persian: سیگری میترا قائنی; born 1975 in Oslo, Norway) is a Faroese poet, actress and school teacher.

Work Gaïni has published four collections of poems, written in Faroese. She represents the younger generation of female poets. In 2004 she won the Faroese Literature Prize in the category Fiction for her poem collection "2002 nætur" ("2002 Nights"). Four of her poems have been chosen for Faroese textbooks Les 2 and Les 3 (Read 2 and Read 3) used for teaching in the Faroese language in public schools.

In 2011 she received two months' wages, Starvsløn, from the Faroese government through the foundation Mentanargrunnurin. There were 98 Faroese artists who applied in 2011; 26 people got 1 to 4 months wage; five people got it from 6 months to one year. The longest period someone has got this kind of wage was for three years. It was given in 2010 to the composer Tróndur Bogason.

She played one of the main characters in Katrin Ottarsdóttir's Faroese/Danish movie Bye Bye Bluebird in 1999. The film won several awards, e.g. a Tiger Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2000. The film was also nominated for the Norwegian Amanda Award but did not win it.