Helga West

Helga West , also North Sami Biennaš-Jon Jovnna Piera Helga (* 1986 in Utsjoki , Finland ), is a Sami poet from Finland.

Life

Helga West was born in 1986 in the village of Outakoski (Utsjoki municipality) in the Finnish part of Sápmi . She studied theology at the University of Helsinki and is currently working on her dissertation on "Reconciliation". She made her debut as a poet in 2018 with a volume of poetry written in North Sami. Several of her poems were also published in German translation by Christine Schlosser .

Publications

2018: Gádden muohttaga vielgadin (German: "I thought the snow was white"). Kárášjohka: CálliidLágádus. ISBN 9788282632942

Individual evidence

↑ Biobibliography "Helga West" In: Johanna Domokos , Christine Schlosser , Michael Rießler (eds.): Words disappear / fly / to the blue light: Sami poetry from yoik to rap . Translated by Christine Schlosser (= Samica . Volume 4 ). 1st edition. Scandinavian Seminar of the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg , Freiburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-9816835-3-0 , p. 473 (484 pp.).
↑ Staff page at the University of Helsinki (in Finnish)
↑ Johanna Domokos , Christine Schlosser , Michael Rießler (eds.): Words disappear / fly / to the blue light: Sami poetry from yoik to rap . Translated by Christine Schlosser (= Samica . Volume 4 ). 1st edition. Scandinavian seminar of the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg , Freiburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-9816835-3-0 (484 pages).

Web links

Helga West's blog (in English, Finnish and North Sami)
Newspaper article about Helga West (in Finnish)

personal data
SURNAME	West, Helga
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Biennaš-Jon Jovnna Piera Helga
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Sami-Finnish poet and theologian
DATE OF BIRTH	1986
PLACE OF BIRTH	Utsjoki , Sápmi, Finland

[1] Biobibliography "Helga West" In: Johanna Domokos , Christine Schlosser , Michael Rießler (eds.): Words disappear / fly / to the blue light: Sami poetry from yoik to rap . Translated by Christine Schlosser (= Samica . Volume 4 ). 1st edition. Scandinavian Seminar of the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg , Freiburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-9816835-3-0 , p. 473 (484 pp.).

[2] Staff page at the University of Helsinki (in Finnish)

[3] Johanna Domokos , Christine Schlosser , Michael Rießler (eds.): Words disappear / fly / to the blue light: Sami poetry from yoik to rap . Translated by Christine Schlosser (= Samica . Volume 4 ). 1st edition. Scandinavian seminar of the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg , Freiburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-9816835-3-0 (484 pages).