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Transmotion  Vol 5, No 2 (2019) 
 
 

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Niillas Holmberg (born 1990) is a poet, musician, actor, translator and activist from Ohcejohka 
in Sámiland, Finland. He is the author of three collections of poetry, written in his mother 
tongue, Northern Sami, a minority language spoken by 20 000 people in Finland, Norway and 
Sweden.  
 
Lill Tove Fredriksen, associate professor of Sámi literature at UiT The Arctic University of 
Norway, is the one who selected this poem. 
 
 

 



Niillas Holmberg   “Máttu oahpus” 
 
 

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