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.