Alootook ipellie biography of william hill

Alootook Ipellie was born in a camp near Iqaluit (formerly Frobisher Bay), the capital of Nunavut, where he spent his childhood and teenage years experiencing the transition from a traditional nomadic way of life to life in government-sponsored Inuit village settlements.

In , after a short stint as an announcer and producer for CBC Radio in Iqaluit, he moved to Ottawa to study and pursue a career in art. He became involved with the Inuit Tapirisat that same year and took on the duties of principal writer, designer, photographer, and translator of Inuit Today, later serving as the magazine’s editor from to

As a noted artist and important figure in the Inuit literature movement, Ipellie’s essays, stories, and poetry have been featured in Northern Voices: Inuit Writing in English (University of Toronto Press, ) and An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature in English (Oxford University