Photo credit: Emily Weisz Studios.

Norma Dunning

Photo credit: Emily Weisz Studios.

Norma Dunning

Dr. Norma Dunning is an Inuk writer as well as a scholar, researcher, professor and grandmother. Her short story collection Tainna: The Unseen Ones won the 2021 Governor General’s Award for literature, and her previous short story collection, Annie Muktuk and Other Stories (University of Alberta Press, 2017), received the Danuta Gleed Literary Award, the Howard O’Hagan Award for short stories and the Bronze Foreword INDIES Award for short stories. She lives in Edmonton, AB.

Norma Dunning is published by Douglas & McIntyre

Photo credit: Emily Weisz Studios.

What to read

Tainna: The Unseen Ones, Short Stories by Norma Dunning, 2021
Kinauvit?: What’s Your Name? The Eskimo Disc System and a Daughter’s Search for her Grandmother by Norma Dunning, 2022
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