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Norma Dunning

b. 1959

Canadian writer

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About Norma Dunning

Born 1959. Norma Dunning is a Canadian writer and professor.

Norma Dunning (born 1959) is an Inuk Canadian writer and assistant lecturer at the University of Alberta, who won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award in 2018 for her short story collection Annie Muktuk and Other Stories. 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. 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. She is based in Edmonton, Alberta, where she completed her doctoral degree with Indigenous Peoples Education at the University of Alberta in June 2019. and was shortlisted for the ReLit Award for short fiction in 2022. 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.

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1959, Quebec
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Awards
Danuta Gleed Literary Award; Governor General's Award for English-language fiction

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Who is Norma Dunning?

Canadian writer

When was Norma Dunning born?

Norma Dunning was born in 1959 in Quebec.

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Norma Dunning is a writer and professor.

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Norma Dunning is Canadian.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Norma Dunning

· Wikidata: Q55381513

· DBpedia: Norma Dunning

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