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Literary Award of the Kindred Peoples' Programme 2025

Since 2007, the board of the Kindred Peoples' Programme has awarded a literature prize to recognise authors and translators of works of literature in the native languages of stateless kindred peoples who have helped to preserve and promote indigenous literature.

18.11.2025

Science Awards of Kindred Peoples’ Programme awarded to Saami and Komi scholars

In 2025, the Science Awards of Kindred Peoples’ Programme were presented to Saami scholar Berit-Ellen Juuso and Komi researcher Maria Fedina.

25.10.2025

Open call for Kindred Peoples’ Literary Award 2025

The aim of the award is to recognise the work of authors or translators of the literature of kindred peoples without their own statehood. The Literary Award may be …

07.10.2025

Fenno-Ugria representative participated in UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York

Fenno-Ugria's vice-chairman Sven-Erik Soosaar reports on his participation as a member of the Estonian delegation in the 24th UNPFII session in New York.

03.06.2025

Russia launches virtual atlas of Northern indigenous peoples

A multimedia portal, or virtual atlas, dedicated to the indigenous peoples of Siberia and the Far East of the Russian Federation has been launched in …

24.11.2024

Literary Award to Arvo Survo and Esa-Jussi Salminen

The aim of the Kindred Peoples' Programme's Literary Award is to recognise the work of authors or translators of the literature of kindred peoples without their own statehood

11.11.2024

David Kroik, winner of Uralic Ethnic Studies Award

This year, David Kroik, a Saami linguist, was awarded the Kindred Peoples’ Programme’s Uralic Ethnic Studies Award for his dissertation ‘The construction of spaces for …

05.11.2024

Open call for Kindred Peoples’ Literary Award 2024

The aim of the award is to recognise the work of authors or translators of the literature of kindred peoples without their own statehood. The …

27.09.2024

Kindred People’s Programme Scientific Awards 2024

Kindred People’s Programme calls for nominations for the Uralic Ethnic Studies Award 2024 and for the Scientific Research published in a Uralic Language Award 2024. The aim of these …

04.09.2024

Winner of 2024 World Tree Award is Szilárd Tibor Tóth

The winner of the 2024 Kindred Peoples' Programme's World Tree Award is the Hungarian Finno-Ugric and kindred people activist Szilárd Tibor Tóth.

05.07.2024

Mari holiday Shorykyol

The Mari holiday begins on a Friday after the new moon after the Winter Solstice. Shorykyol lasts for a week, this year from 5 January to 12 January.

16.01.2024

Artist draws inspiration from Komi mythology

Yury Lisovski cherisches the Komi cultural heritage through his art.

16.12.2023