Anna Nerkagi is a Nenets writer, novelist, and social activist of the Nenets people in Siberia, writing in the Russian language.
Anna Pavlovna Nerkagi[1] 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]
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