Anna Nerkagi

Anna Pavlovna Nerkagi is a Nenets writer, novelist, and social activist of the Nenets people in Siberia, writing in the Russian language.

Biography

Anna Pavlovna Nerkagi¹ was born on February 15, 1951, on the Yamal Peninsula, near the Kara Sea coast in West Siberia, Russia.² In 1958, at the age of six, she was removed from her parents by the Soviet authorities and forced to live in a boarding school, where the indigenous languages and native culture were banned.² She was only allowed to visit her parents during holidays.¹ In 1974, she graduated from the Geology Institute at Tyumen Technical University.¹

Nerkagi debuted as a writer with the autobiographic Aniko of the Nogo clan in 1977.³ She writes in the Russian language.⁴ In 1978, known for publishing Aniko, she became a member of the Writer's Union.¹ She left Tyumen in 1980 and returned to the nomadic way of life in the Yamal Peninsula, where she lives with her husband.¹ In 1990, she started the Tundra School for Nenets Children.² She currently lives and works near the village Laborovaya in the Yamal tundra, educating Nenets children.³

In 2012, a documentary film about Nerkagi's life, directed by Ekaterina Golovnya, won the Grand Prix at the Radonezh film festival in Russia.⁵

Bibliography

Aniko of the Nogo clan, 1977
Ilir, 1979
The White Yagel, 1986
The Horde, 1992-1998 (dedicated to the memory of the poet Daniil Andreyev)³
White Arctic Moss, written in 1994, published unabridged in 1996 and in English translation as White Moss in 2026 (a sequel to Aniko of the Nogo clan)¹

References

Hardy Aiken, Susan (1994). Dialogues. Exsoviet and American Women (Digitized 28 Feb 2008 ed.). University of Michigan: Duke University Press. pp. 285–311. ISBN 9780822313755. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
Kasten, Erich; de Graaf, Tjeerd (2013). Sustaining Indigenous Knowledge: Learning Tools and Community Initiatives for Preserving Endangered Languages and Local Cultural Heritage. BoD – Books on Demand. p. 186. ISBN 9783942883122.
Alexander Vaschenko; Claude Clayton Smith; N. Scott Momaday. The Way of Kinship: An Anthology of Native Siberian Literature. University of Minnesota Press. pp. 200–201. ISBN 9781452915463.
Thibaudat, Jean-Pierre (7 August 1998). "Voyage chez les Nénètses de Sibérie (5)". Libération (in French). Retrieved 19 August 2016.
Otroshenko, Anastasia (5 February 2015). "Анна Неркаги: научиться любить повседневность" (in Russian). miloserdie.ru. Retrieved 19 August 2016.

[dialogues-1] Hardy Aiken, Susan (1994). Dialogues. Exsoviet and American Women (Digitized 28 Feb 2008 ed.). University of Michigan: Duke University Press. pp. 285–311. ISBN 9780822313755. Retrieved 19 August 2016.

[sustain-2] Kasten, Erich; de Graaf, Tjeerd (2013). Sustaining Indigenous Knowledge: Learning Tools and Community Initiatives for Preserving Endangered Languages and Local Cultural Heritage. BoD – Books on Demand. p. 186. ISBN 9783942883122.

[wk-3] Alexander Vaschenko; Claude Clayton Smith; N. Scott Momaday. The Way of Kinship: An Anthology of Native Siberian Literature. University of Minnesota Press. pp. 200–201. ISBN 9781452915463.

[4] Thibaudat, Jean-Pierre (7 August 1998). "Voyage chez les Nénètses de Sibérie (5)". Libération (in French). Retrieved 19 August 2016.

[5] Otroshenko, Anastasia (5 February 2015). "Анна Неркаги: научиться любить повседневность" (in Russian). miloserdie.ru. Retrieved 19 August 2016.

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