Norma Dunning

Norma Dunning (born 1959) is an Inuk Canadian writer and assistant lecturer at the University of Alberta,^[1] who won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award in 2018 for her short story collection Annie Muktuk and Other Stories.^[2] In the same year, she won the Writers' Guild of Alberta's Howard O'Hagan Award for the short story "Elipsee", and was a shortlisted finalist for the City of Edmonton Book Award.^[3] She published in 2020 a collection of poetry and stories entitled Eskimo Pie: A Poetics of Inuit Identity.

Of Inuit descent, Dunning was born in Quebec and raised in a variety of towns as her father was a member of the Canadian military.^[4] She is based in Edmonton, Alberta, where she completed her doctoral degree with Indigenous Peoples Education at the University of Alberta in June 2019.^[4]

Her story collection

Her second book Akia: The Other Side, is a collection of poetry that honors Inuit who lay in the past.

In 2023, her non-fiction book Kinauvit?: What’s Your Name? The Eskimo Disc System and a Daughter’s Search for Her Grandmother was shortlisted for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing.^[7]

References

1. ^ "Dunning, Norma | Inuit Literatures ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐊᓪᓚᒍᓯᖏᑦ Littératures inuites". inuit.uqam.ca. Retrieved 2020-12-16.
2. Canadian Press via Global News
   , June 14, 2018.
3. ^ "Edmonton's Indigenous writers finally being heard, Inuk author says". CBC News Edmonton, June 28, 2019.
4. ^ ^{a b} "Inuk writer reveals story behind award-winning fiction". Folio, June 29, 2018.
5. ^ "Inuk author Norma Dunning wins $25K Governor General's fiction prize". Coast Reporter, November 17, 2021.
6. CBC Books
   , May 9, 2022.
7. ^ "Globe reporter Josh O’Kane among Shaughnessy Cohen book prize nominees". The Globe and Mail, March 29, 2023.

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