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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.
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.
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 …
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
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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.
The winners of the Kindred People's Literary Award are Ķempi Kārl and Aado Lintrop
On 1 November, in commemoration of the Udmurt writer and social activist Kuzebai Gerd (1898–1937), the Kindred Peoples' Programme traditionally announced the winners of the Literary Award.
Udmurt culture researchers win Uralic Ethnic Studies Award
The 2023 Uralic Ethnic Studies Award was awarded to Eva Toulouze and Nikolai Anisimov for their research into 21st century Udmurt culture.
'Smoke Sauna Sisterhood' nominated for international awards
The Estonian-made and co-produced documentary film ‘Smoke Sauna Sisterhood’, or ‘Savvusanna sõsarad’ in South Estonian has received much international attention. The movie, directed by Anna …