In connection with the Sami Language Week, author Moa Backe Åstot visits Skellefteå and Sara Kulturhus.
Moa's latest book, Butterfly Heart, is about reclaiming her family's Sami language, which the previous generation lost. Through her stories, she offers new perspectives on both Sami culture and identity. She wants young Sami people to recognize themselves in what she writes, but also for outsiders to get an insight into what it can be like to live as a young Sami today. Sami is close to Moa's heart and she has studied Lule Sami at Umeå University.
Moa Backe Åstot, born in 1998, is a reindeer-owning Sami living in Jokkmokk. Her debut novel Himlabrand won the Swedish Adult Education Association's Writers' Prize, Slangbellan and Norrlands litteraturpris, and was nominated for the August Prize 2021. Himlabrand was also nominated for the Nordic Council Children and Young People's Literature Prize.
