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Poets' A-Z » Rauni Magga
Lukkari
Rauni Magga Lukkari is a native of the Finnish side of the
Tana river and was born in 1943. Her first poetry collection
was published in 1980, by which time she had moved to Tromsö,
in northern Norway, where she still lives.
She writes in the north Sami dialect spoken by about 20,000
people spread over three nation states: Norway, Finland and
Sweden. Rauni Lukkari’s work has been published in English
translation in several journals and her collection The
Time of the Lustful Mother is trilingual: Sami/Norwegian/English
(1999); she is a playwright and translator as well as a poet
of both private and public occasions—for example, she
provided the prologue for the opening of the Sami parliament
in 1989.
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