Kati-Claudia Fofonoff (8 December 1947 in
Ivalo
Ivalo ( smn, Avveel, se, Avvil, sms, Âʹvvel) is a village in the municipality of Inari, Lapland, Finland, located on the Ivalo River south of Lake Inari in the Arctic Circle. It has a population of 3,998 and a small airport. south of Ival ...
– 12 June 2011
) was a Skolt Saami author and translator who wrote in
Skolt Saami and
Finnish
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. Her books have also been translated into
Northern Saami,
Norwegian
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and
Icelandic.
Works
* ''Parnasso 2'' 1982 (Poems in Finnish)
* ''Koparat: joulukoparat'' 1987 (Poems in Finnish)
* ''Paatsjoen laulut'' - ''Pââšjooǥǥ laulli'' 1988-1989 (book and cassette)
* ''Jânnam muttum nuuʹbbiooʹri'' 1998 (Poems in Skolt Saami)
* ''Vuämm Jeeʹelvueiʹvv. Mainnâz''. 2004
* ''Vanha jäkäläpää'' 1–2 2005 (CD)
* ''Suonikylän poluilta'' 1–3 2005 (CD)
Translations
*
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint-Exupéry, simply known as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (, , ; 29 June 1900 – 31 July 1944), was a French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist and pioneering aviator. He became a laureate of s ...
: ''Uʹcc priinsâž'' 2000 (''
The Little Prince
''The Little Prince'' (french: Le Petit Prince, ) is a novella by French aristocrat, writer, and military pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. It was first published in English and French in the United States by Reynal & Hitchcock in April 1943 an ...
'' in Skolt Saami)
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Kati-Claudia Fofonoff
1947 births
2011 deaths
Finnish Sámi people
People from Inari, Finland
Finnish Sámi-language writers
20th-century Finnish poets
Skolts
Finnish women poets
20th-century Finnish women writers
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