Norma Dunning (born 1959) is anInuk Canadian writer and assistant lecturer at theUniversity of Alberta,[1] who won theDanuta Gleed Literary Award in 2018 for her short story collectionAnnie Muktuk and Other Stories.[2] In the same year, she won theWriters' 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 entitledEskimo Pie: A Poetics of Inuit Identity.
OfInuit descent through her mother, Dunning was born inQuebec and raised in a variety of towns as her father was a member of the Canadian military.[4] She is based inEdmonton,Alberta, where she completed her doctoral degree with Indigenous Peoples Education at theUniversity of Alberta in June 2019.[4]
Her story collectionTainna (pronouncedDa-ee-nna) won theGovernor General's Award for English-language fiction at the2021 Governor General's Awards,[5] and was shortlisted for theReLit Award for short fiction in 2022.[6] Her second bookAkia: The Other Side, is a collection of poetry that honors Inuit who lay in the past.
In 2023, her non-fiction bookKinauvit?: What’s Your Name? The Eskimo Disc System and a Daughter’s Search for Her Grandmother was shortlisted for theShaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing.[7]
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