The Home of the Drowned

Elin Anna Labba''s first book, The Displaced , about the deportation of the Northern Sami, won Sweden''s most prestigious book prize, the August Prize for Best Non-Fiction, in 2020. It was also shortlisted for Norrland''s Literature Prize and the Storytel Award. She is a journalist and was previously the editor-in-chief of magazine Nuorat . Today she works for the Sami Authors'' Centre, with a mission to strengthen and promote Sami literature.>

About the author

Elin Anna Labba’s first book, The Displaced, about the deportation of the Northern Sámi, won Sweden’s most prestigious book prize, the August Prize for Best Non-Fiction, in 2020. It was also short­listed for Norrland’s Literature Prize and the Storytel Award. She is a journalist and was previously the editor-in-chief of magazine Nuorat. Today she works for the Sámi Authors’ Centre, with a mission to strengthen and promote Sámi lite­rature.

Product details

• Authors: Elin Anna Labba
• Publisher: Harvill Secker
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 07.05.2026
• EAN: 9781787305243
• ISBN: 978-1-78730-524-3
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 222 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Sagas, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Family Life / General, Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Fiction in translation, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Relating to indigenous peoples, Narrative theme: displacement, exile, migration, c 1940 to c 1949, FICTION / Nature & the Environment, Narrative theme: Environmental issues / the natural world, Saga fiction (family / generational sagas), Sámi native region of Finland, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, FICTION / Indigenous / Women