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Rachel Attituq Qitsualik

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. 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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