Inger Gunhild Maria "Inghilda" Tapio (née Valkeapää, born February 1946 in Gárasavvon, Sweden) is a Saami author, poet, translator, and actress.
After graduation, she studied Swedish, Northern Saami, English, and pedagogy at Umeå University.
Later on, she studied art at Sunderby Folk High School and dramaturgy in Inari, Finland.
[2] In 1995, she won the Saami Council Literature Prize for the Northern Sámi anthology Ii fal dan dihte.
[4] Tapio's children's books have been translated into multiple Saami languages and her poetry into English, Spanish, German, and Icelandic.