Harald Gaski

Harald Gaski is a Professor in Sámi Culture and Literature at Sámi allaskuvla / Sámi University of Applied Sciences in Guovdageaidnu and at UiT The Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø. Gaski was born and lives in Deatnu (Tana) in Sápmi. He is the author and editor of several books on Sámi literature and culture. He has also translated Sámi prose and poetry into Norwegian and English. Gaski has been a visiting scholar at several universities internationally. He served on the International Research Advisory Panel of New Zealand’s Māori Centre of Research Excellence for 10 years (2006-2015). Gaski’s research specializes in Indigenous methodologies and Sámi aesthetics, traditions, culture and literature. He has been instrumental in establishing Sámi literature as an academic field. Gaski’s research has been recognized, among others with the Nordic Sámi Language Prize Gollegiella in 2006, and the Vaartoe /Cesam’s research award at the University of Umeå in Sweden in 2015. Gaski’s most recent book is an anthology of Sámi literature, published in 2020, titled Myths, Tales and Poetry from Four Centuries of Sámi Literature.