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Canadian writer
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 through her mother, 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
Tainna (pronounced Da-ee-nna ) won the
Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the
2021 Governor General's Awards ,
[5] and was shortlisted for the
ReLit Award for short fiction in 2022.
[6] 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
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"Dunning, Norma | Inuit Literatures ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐊᓪᓚᒍᓯᖏᑦ Littératures inuites" . inuit.uqam.ca . Retrieved 2020-12-16 .
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"Edmonton-based Inuk writer Norma Dunning wins $10K Danuta Gleed Literary Award" .
Canadian Press via
Global News , June 14, 2018.
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"Edmonton's Indigenous writers finally being heard, Inuk author says" .
CBC News Edmonton, June 28, 2019.
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b
"Inuk writer reveals story behind award-winning fiction" .
Folio , June 29, 2018.
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"Inuk author Norma Dunning wins $25K Governor General's fiction prize" . Coast Reporter , November 17, 2021.
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"Short fiction from Norma Dunning, David Huebert, Alix Ohlin among works shortlisted for 2022 ReLit Awards" .
CBC Books , May 9, 2022.
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"Globe reporter Josh O’Kane among Shaughnessy Cohen book prize nominees" .
The Globe and Mail , March 29, 2023.
1930s 1940s
Ringuet ,
Thirty Acres (1940)
Alan Sullivan , Three Came to Ville Marie (1941)
G. Herbert Sallans , Little Man (1942)
Thomas Head Raddall , The Pied Piper of Dipper Creek (1943)
Gwethalyn Graham ,
Earth and High Heaven (1944)
Hugh MacLennan ,
Two Solitudes (1945)
Winifred Bambrick , Continental Revue (1946)
Gabrielle Roy ,
The Tin Flute (1947)
Hugh MacLennan ,
The Precipice (1948)
Philip Child , Mr. Ames Against Time (1949)
1950s
Germaine Guèvremont , The Outlander (1950)
Morley Callaghan , The Loved and the Lost (1951)
David Walker , The Pillar (1952)
David Walker , Digby (1953)
Igor Gouzenko , The Fall of a Titan (1954)
Lionel Shapiro , The Sixth of June (1955)
Adele Wiseman , The Sacrifice (1956)
Gabrielle Roy ,
Street of Riches (1957)
Colin McDougall ,
Execution (1958)
Hugh MacLennan ,
The Watch That Ends the Night (1959)
1960s 1970s
Dave Godfrey , The New Ancestors (1970)
Mordecai Richler ,
St. Urbain's Horseman (1971)
Robertson Davies ,
The Manticore (1972)
Rudy Wiebe , The Temptations of Big Bear (1973)
Margaret Laurence ,
The Diviners (1974)
Brian Moore ,
The Great Victorian Collection (1975)
Marian Engel ,
Bear (1976)
Timothy Findley ,
The Wars (1977)
Alice Munro ,
Who Do You Think You Are? (1978)
Jack Hodgins , The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne (1979)
1980s
George Bowering , Burning Water (1980)
Mavis Gallant , Home Truths: Selected Canadian Stories (1981)
Guy Vanderhaeghe ,
Man Descending (1982)
Leon Rooke ,
Shakespeare's Dog (1983)
Josef Škvorecký , The Engineer of Human Souls (1984)
Margaret Atwood ,
The Handmaid's Tale (1985)
Alice Munro ,
The Progress of Love (1986)
M. T. Kelly , A Dream Like Mine (1987)
David Adams Richards ,
Nights Below Station Street (1988)
Paul Quarrington ,
Whale Music (1989)
1990s
Nino Ricci ,
Lives of the Saints (1990)
Rohinton Mistry ,
Such a Long Journey (1991)
Michael Ondaatje ,
The English Patient (1992)
Carol Shields ,
The Stone Diaries (1993)
Rudy Wiebe , A Discovery of Strangers (1994)
Greg Hollingshead , The Roaring Girl (1995)
Guy Vanderhaeghe ,
The Englishman's Boy (1996)
Jane Urquhart ,
The Underpainter (1997)
Diane Schoemperlen , Forms of Devotion (1998)
Matt Cohen ,
Elizabeth and After (1999)
2000s
Michael Ondaatje ,
Anil's Ghost (2000)
Richard B. Wright ,
Clara Callan (2001)
Gloria Sawai , A Song for Nettie Johnson (2002)
Douglas Glover , Elle (2003)
Miriam Toews ,
A Complicated Kindness (2004)
David Gilmour ,
A Perfect Night to Go to China (2005)
Peter Behrens ,
The Law of Dreams (2006)
Michael Ondaatje ,
Divisadero (2007)
Nino Ricci , The Origin of Species (2008)
Kate Pullinger , The Mistress of Nothing (2009)
2010s
Dianne Warren , Cool Water (2010)
Patrick deWitt ,
The Sisters Brothers (2011)
Linda Spalding , The Purchase (2012)
Eleanor Catton ,
The Luminaries (2013)
Thomas King ,
The Back of the Turtle (2014)
Guy Vanderhaeghe , Daddy Lenin and Other Stories (2015)
Madeleine Thien ,
Do Not Say We Have Nothing (2016)
Joel Thomas Hynes ,
We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night (2017)
Sarah Henstra ,
The Red Word (2018)
Joan Thomas ,
Five Wives (2019)
2020s
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