Norma Dunning

Norma Dunning (born 1959) is an Inuit Canadian writer,[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 Inuk 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]

References
  1. "Dunning, Norma | Inuit Literatures ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐊᓪᓚᒍᓯᖏᑦ Littératures inuites". inuit.uqam.ca. Retrieved 2020-12-16.
  2. "Edmonton-based Inuk writer Norma Dunning wins $10K Danuta Gleed Literary Award". 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. "Inuk writer reveals story behind award-winning fiction". Folio, June 29, 2018.
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