Occupation writer Name Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley Nationality Canadian Role Writer | Genre young adult literature Spouse Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley Notable works Skraelings | |
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. 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.
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.
She works as an Inuktitut language translator, and has written both non-fiction and short stories about Inuit culture.
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