Sara Ranta-Rönnlund

Sara Ranta-Rönnlund, born Sara Pojdnack (alt. Poidnakk) 1903 in Kaalasvuoma Sami village, Norrbotten, Sweden, was a Swedish Sami brought up in a nomadic reindeer herding family, who later in life as a senior became a writer and folk narrator. She belonged to a large family and spent just a few years in a nomadic school. At 24 when she married Nils Petter Nilsson Ranta she gave up the nomad life and became resident of Nilivaara, a Laestadian village. When the marriage was dissolved Sara Ranta and her six children moved to Gällivare where she met her second husband Arvid Zackeus Rönnlund. After her second husbands death in 1953 she move to Uppsala with her seven children to give them the opportunity to study. Sara Ranta-Rönnlund earned her and her large families living by working as a cleaner and factory worker. In 1971, at 68, she published her first book of memories and tales from the north, "Nådevalpar". Before her death in 1979 she published three more books about the life in Samiland.