Norma Dunning

Norma Dunning (PhD) is a Padlei Inuk writer, professor, and grandmother. She’s published in poetry, prose, fiction, and nonfiction.

Kinauvit? (what’s your name?) a work of nonfiction shortlisted for the Shaughnessy Cohen prize for political writing in 2023 and Tainna (the unseen ones) received the Governor General’s Award in literary fiction in 2021. Annie Muktuk and Other Stories (2017) received the Danuta Gleed in 2018, as well as several other literary awards. She has also published two collections of poetry. All of her books have been translated from English into French. Eskimo Pie: A Poetics of Inuit Identity was also translated to Greek and Tainna (the unseen ones) is translating into Amharic. Aput! (snow), her first children’s book, is releasing in 2025.

Dunning lives in Regina where she teaches at the First Nations University of Canada.