Siri Broch Johansen

portrait of a woman dressed in black outdoors in winter
Broch Johansen in 2011

Siri Broch Johansen is a Norwegian Sámi author and language worker from Tana Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway.

She trains teachers in the Sámi language; she formerly taught in Kåfjord Municipality in Troms county. She has written and edited a textbook on indigenous peoples of the north, and has served as language leader at the Samisk Nærings- og Utredningssenter in Tana.

Broch Johansen won the Saami Council Literature Prize in 2016 for her young-adult novel Mun lean čuoigi.[1]

Works

  • 1992 Opp av brønnen – Poetry
  • 1997 Mii leat ain dás (Vi er ennå her) – textbook on indigenous peoples of the North (ISBN 82-7374-250-4)
  • 2001 Mearrasámit
  • 2005 Sámi skuvlahistorjá 1 (Sami school history) (ISBN 82-7374-575-9)
  • 2007 Sámi skuvlahistorjá 2 (Sami school history) (ISBN 978-82-7374-666-5)
  • 2009 Sámi skuvlahistorjá 3 (Sami school history) (ISBN 978-82-7374-730-3)
  • 2016 Mun lean čuoigi (youth novel) (ISBN 978-82-8263-160-0)
  • 2025 Ovllá – libretto of opera composed by Cecilia Damström

References

  1. ↑ "Får samiskt litteraturpris för sin ungdomsroman - Sameradion" (in Swedish). Sveriges Radio. 14 October 2016. Retrieved 10 July 2025.