Michael Kusugak

Michael Arvaarluk Kusugak (born 1948 in Repulse Bay — then in the Northwest Territories, now in Nunavut) And stays in Vancouver Island in the winter. He is a Canadian children's writer and storyteller, who writes about Arctic and Inuit culture. He was named the winner of the Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature in 2008.^[1]

He currently lives in Rankin Inlet, and has also worked as an educational administrator for Nunavut Arctic College. Ijiraq, a moon of Saturn, was named by astronomer John J. Kavelaars after encountering the term in one of Kusugak's books.

Works

• A Promise is a Promise (co-authored with Robert Munsch, 1989)
• Baseball Bats for Christmas (1990)
• Hide and Sneak (1992)
• Northern Lights: The Soccer Trails (1993)
• My Arctic 1,2,3 (1996)
• Arctic Stories (1998)
• Who Wants Rocks? (1999)
• The Curse of the Shaman, A Marble Island Story (2006)
• The Littlest Sled Dog (2008)

References

1. ^ Writers' Trust of Canada

External links

• Michael Kusugak

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Name	Kusugak, Michael
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Date of birth	1948
Place of birth	Repulse Bay, Nunavut
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