Anne-Grethe Leine Bientie, Date of Birth

Anne-Grethe Leine Bientie

Norwegian Sami writer

Date of Birth: 02-Jul-1954

Profession: writer, author, hymnwriter

Nationality: Norway

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Anne-Grethe Leine Bientie (born July 2, 1954) is a Norwegian writer and psalmist.
She has worked extensively with South Sami church life and has written books and hymns in South Sami.
She is married to the priest and psalmist Bierna Bientie.Anne-Grethe Leine Bientie originally came from Bærum and learned southern Sami as an adult.
She has written children's books and hymns in southern Sami, and is represented with two hymns in the Norwegian hymn book 2013.
Her last book came in 2015 and is a book in southern Sami for distribution in the church's faith teaching work.Together with illustrator Meerke Laimi Thomasson Vekterli, she published the children's book Joekoen sjïehteles ryöjnesjæjja in 2014.
In 2018, the book was nominated for the Nordic Council Children and Young People's Literature Prize.