Iđut Explained

Iđut AS
Type:Private
Industry:Publishing
Founded:1985 in, Norway
Founders:Åge Persen & Mari Boine
Hq Location City:Ikkaldas
Hq Location Country:Norway
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Products:Books, Music, Magazines
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Iđut AS is a Norwegian publisher of books and music, based in Ikkaldas in Porsanger Municipality, Finnmark county, Norway.

The company publishes novels, children's books, text books and school books, general literature, music and films. It also has publishes a bimonthly youth-culture magazine, Š, which is edited by Máret Ánne Sara. The main language for the books and music Iđut publishes is Northern Sámi, but it also publishes material in Lule Sámi, Southern Sámi, Kven, and Norwegian.[1]

Iđut was founded in 1985 as a record label and expanded into book publishing in 1991.[2] The company is headed by Åge Persen and its chief editor is Nan Persen. The company name, Iđut, comes from a Northern Sámi word that means to sprout in English.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Kontakt oss. Iđut AS. no. 17 February 2021.
  2. Book: Hilder, Thomas. Sámi Musical Performance and the Politics of Indigeneity in Northern Europe. 17 February 2021. 2014. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Lanham, Maryland. 978-0-8108-8896-8. 165.
  3. Web site: Iđut. Books from Norway. 17 February 2021.