| Elin Anna Labba | |
| Native Name: | Joná Gusttu Elin Ánná |
| Native Name Lang: | se |
| Birth Name: | Joná Gusttu Elin Ánná |
| Birth Date: | 30 November 1980 |
| Birth Place: | Kiruna, Sweden |
| Occupation: | author and journalist |
| Alma Mater: | University of Gothenburg |
| Awards: | August Prize (2020) Norrland Literature Prize (2021) Hedevind Plaquette (2022) |
Elin Anna Labba (; born November 30, 1980, Kiruna / Giron, Sweden) is a Sámi author and journalist. She has won multiple prizes for her first book Swedish: Herrarna satte oss hit: om tvångsförflyttningarna i Sverige (English: The Gentlemen Put Us Here: About the Forced Relocations in Sweden), which describes the forced migration of the Sámi from Norway to Sweden from 1919 to 1920.
Elin Anna Labba was born on November 30, 1980, in Kiruna, Sweden, where she also grew up.[1] She moved to Gothenburg to study journalism at the Department of Journalism, Media and Communication at the University of Gothenburg. At the same time she was studying, Labba was also working as a journalist for P4 Norrbotten, SR Sápmi, and the Sámi news magazine Samefolket. She graduated from the University of Gothenburg in 2008.[2]
Since she graduated, Labba worked as the editor-in-chief of Nuorat and as the director of communications at Laponiatjuottjudus. Currently, she is employed as a project manager at the writer's center Tjállegoahte in Jokkmokk, Sweden.
In 2020, she debuted as an author with the Swedish-language book Swedish: Herrarna satte oss hit: om tvångsförflyttningarna i Sverige, which was translated and released the same year in Northern Sámi under the title Northern Sami: Hearrát dat bidje min: bággojohtimiid birra. It was translated from Swedish to Norwegian Bokmål and published in 2021 as Bokmål, Norwegian; Norwegian Bokmål: Herrene sendte oss hit: om tvangsflyttingen av samene.
In 2020, Labba was awarded the August Prize for her book Swedish: Herrarna satte oss hit: om tvångsförflyttningarna i Sverige. In 2021, she won the Norrland Literature Prize for the same book. In 2022, she was awarded the Hedevind Plaquette.[3]