Home of the Drowned

Elin Anna Labba (Author) ELIN ANNA LABBA is a Sámi writer and journalist. She has worked as an editor for Sámi magazines and as director of Tjállegoahte, the Sámi Writers’ Centre, which is dedicated to promoting Sámi literature. Her debut, The Rocks Will Echo Our Sorrow: The Forced Displacement of the Northern Sámi, was awarded the August Prize for Best Non-Fiction, along with several other prestigious awards. In 2024, Labba was appointed Honorary Doctor of Philosophy at Luleå University of Technology in recognition of her contribution to both literary and public discourse and for giving voice to communities shaped by historical and environmental change.Elizabeth Clark Wessel (Translator) ELIZABETH CLARK WESSEL is a poet and translator. Originally from rural Nebraska, she now lives in Stockholm, Sweden.

The Home of the Drowned shines a light on Swedish colonial history. I felt this story bodily, as its three central women moved me between their resistance and adaptation - their anger and resignation - to land, finally, in a feeling of defencelessness. Elin Anna Labba's prose is like the rising waters of a dammed lake, slowly finding its way into every corner of my being. It is heart-achingly beautiful. The author is a master at conveying the importance of the individual in the fabric of the wider world. I can't recommend it enough