Markoosie Patsauq

Markoosie Patsauq (ᒫᑯᓯ ᐸᑦᓴᐅᖅ, 1941/42 - 2020) was a Canadian Inuk writer.[1] He is best known for Harpoon of the Hunter (ᐊᖑᓇᓱᑦᑎᐅᑉ ᓇᐅᒃᑯᑎᖓ), the first published Inuktitut language novel; the novel was written later, but published earlier (1970), than Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk's Sanaaq.[2]

Born near Inukjuak, Quebec,[3] his was one of the families forcibly relocated to Resolute, Northwest Territories in the High Arctic relocation in 1953.[4] He later attended high school in Yellowknife.[5]

Patsauq wrote the coming of age story Harpoon of the Hunter in 1969 when he worked as a pilot (the first Inuk pilot in Canada), using material he had heard from family members.[6] It was serialized in the Inuit periodical Inuttituut before being published in an English translation in 1970.[5] In Ukrainian, the story was first published in 1974 by the publishing house Veselka (Rainbow). A French translation was published in 2013, and translations into Hindi and Marathi followed in 2014.[7] He also wrote short stories and non-fiction, although none of his other work became as known as Harpoon of the Hunter.[3]

In 2016, scholar Valerie Henitiuk, was studying how the meaning of the original story written in Inuktitut may have changed when it was translated into English; subsequent translations were based on that English translation.[8]

He died in March 2020 at his home in Inukjuak.[3]

References
  1. "Markoosie". Oxford Reference.
  2. Martin, Keavy (17 January 2014). "Southern readers finally get a chance to read Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk, the accidental Inuit novelist". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
  3. "Markoosie Patsauq, first Inuit novelist, lived the history of his people". CBC North, April 20, 2020.
  4. "Markoosie Patsauq – His Story". Iqqaumavara (dir. Marquise Lepage), 2013.
  5. "MARKOOSIE, 1942-: LMS-0017". Collections Canada.
  6. "Edmonton researcher studying versions of first Inuit novel | Globalnews.ca". globalnews.ca. 2016-11-13. Retrieved 2019-08-13.
  7. "L'Inde s'ouvre à la culture inuite". Actualités UQAM, October 14, 2014.
  8. "Edmonton researcher studying versions of first Inuit novel". Global News. November 13, 2016. Retrieved August 13, 2019.
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