Rachel Attituq Qitsualik-Tinsley is a

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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

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at the 2014 Governor General's Awards. She is of Inuk, Scottish and Cree descent. The duo also cowrote the 2008 book ''Qanuq Pinngurnirmata'', a volume of

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. The book was reissued in 2015 as ''How Things Came to Be: Inuit Stories of Creation''. She works as an

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translator, and has written both non-fiction and short stories about

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. In 2012, she was awarded the

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for her writing. In 2017, she ran as a candidate in the Nunavut territorial election for the electoral district of Quttiktuq. Qitsualik-Tinsley finished in last place in her riding, with 0 votes.

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