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Dr. Norma Dunning
Kinauvit? (what's your name?)
Dr Norma Dunning is a Padlei Inuk writer, and professor. She writes fiction and non-fiction, prose and poetry. Her first work of nonfiction, Kinauvit? What’s your name explains the Eskimo Identification Canada system (2022) and is a finalist for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing with Writers Trust. Tainna (the unseen ones) received the Governor General's Award (2021). Annie Muktuk and Other Stories received the Danuta Gleed award (2018) and many other awards. Eskimo Pie: a poetics of Inuit Identity and Akia: the other side are her poetic works. She lives in Edmonton.
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