Inger-Mari Aikio
Tropihka rievssat

Tropihka rievssat takes us on an eighteen-year-old girl's year-long journey around the world. On the journey, we follow the village child Maret in her encounter with foreign places, habits, ways of life, cultures and experiences. In her encounters with people, she learns to know other ways of thinking, is attracted to and falls in love, experiences joy and sorrow, but everything has a price.

Inger-Mari Aikio

Inger-Mari Aikio born 1961 in Ohcejohka/Utsjoki, lives in Samiland, North Finland.
Poet, writer, translator and director and producer of documentary films and music videos. Worked before as a journalist, radio host and reporter.

Published ten books in Northern Sami. Seven of them are poem books, two children’s books and a novel for teens and young adults in Northern Sami. Translations in English, Spanish, Norwegian, German, Hungarian, Finnish, French, Italian, Arabic, Kiswahili and Bulgarian.

Trilingual poem book Roađđi – Rosa Boreal – Boreal Rose (2016) published in Sami, English and Spanish together with Niillas Holmberg.

Lyrics for 45 recorded songs. Directed 12 music videos and 11 documentary films.

Nominated for Nordic Litterature Prize (2004).
Skábmagovat Film Award (2013) and State Award for Children’s culture (2015).

Other titles

Gollebiekkat almmi dievva 1989
Jiehki vuolde ruonas giđđa 1993
Silkeguobbara lákca 1995
Máilmmis dása 2001
Fra verden og hit 2004
Maailmalta tähän 2006
Camera Poetica – Suonat 2008
Sener 2013
Beaivváš čuohká gaba – Aurinko juo kermaa 2014
Riebaniid bihpporgáhkut 2006
Čáhcerávgga gazza 2011

Foreign rights

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Awards

Skábmagovat Film Award (2013) and State Award for Children’s culture (2015)

Edited April 13, 2026 by DAT