Netflix NFLX is expanding its international content portfolio with the adaptation of Ann-Helen Laestadius’ acclaimed novel, Stolen. Elin Kristina Oskal is starring in the leading role of Elsa and the ...
BBC: Film director Sarah Polley, novelist Ann-Helen Laestadius and deep fakes on TV
Film director Sarah Polley, novelist Ann-Helen Laestadius and deep fakes on TV
Monika Ulrika Ann-Helén Laestadius is a Swedish Sámi journalist and writer. In 2016, her novel "Tio över ett "(Ten Past One) won the Swedish August Prize as the best submission in the children and ...
Ann-Helén Laestadius’ novel “Stolen” is getting a Netflix adaptation. Elle Márjá Eira (“The Sámi Have Rights”) is set to direct the feature based on a screenplay by Peter Birro (“Monica Z”).
Ann-Helén Laestadius grew up among the Sámi, an Indigenous people living near the Arctic Circle, in Europe. Her novel, “Stolen,” a success in her native Sweden, reflects that culture to a broad ...
Netflix is adapting Ann-Helén Laestadius novel Stolen, in which a young woman struggles to defend her indigenous heritage, into a film. Shooting will begin in Sapmi (formerly known as Lapland) next ...
AOL: ‘More and more Sami authors are telling their stories’: Ann-Helén Laestadius on writing about her Indigenous community
Whenever Ann-Helén Laestadius starts to write, she returns to her hometown of Kiruna. From this Arctic city in the northernmost reaches of Sweden, the author travels out to her parents’ villages of ...
‘More and more Sami authors are telling their stories’: Ann-Helén Laestadius on writing about her Indigenous community
At the beginning of Ann-Helén Laestadius’ novel Stolen, 9-year old Elsa skis to her family’s reindeer corral in northern Sweden as the low winter sun sets. Elsa, who is Sámi and comes from a family of ...