Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley

Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley
Born Rachel Attituq Qitsualik
Nunavut
Occupation writer
Nationality Canadian
Genre young adult literature
Notable works Skraelings
Spouse Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley

Rachel Attituq Qitsualik-Tinsley is a Canadian writer. She was a winner of the Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature in 2015 for Skraelings, which she cowrote with her husband Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley.[1] The book was also a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature at the 2014 Governor General's Awards.[2]

The duo also cowrote the 2008 book Qanuq Pinngurnirmata, a volume of Inuit mythology. The book was reissued in 2015 as How Things Came to Be: Inuit Stories of Creation.[3]

She works as an Inuktitut language translator, and has written both non-fiction and short stories about Inuit culture.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Rachel and Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley win 2015 Burt Award". Quill & Quire, October 26, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Winnipeg authors up for GG awards". Winnipeg Free Press, October 8, 2014.
  3. ↑ "Inuit culture comes alive". Guelph Mercury, August 1, 2015.
  4. ↑ "Taming the unfrozen North; When global warming melts the Arctic ice, look to the Inuit to adapt and survive, just as their ancestors did". Toronto Star, August 31, 2006.


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