In the early 1950s, 22-year-old Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk began compiling Inuktitut phrases as a language guide for missionaries. She then created fictional characters and began imagining their lives during a period of profound change. Those stories would eventually become Sanaaq, the first novel written in Inuktitut syllabics in Canada. This story is also available in French and Inuktitut.
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Poet Lyuba Yakimchuk grew up in the contested Donbas region of Ukraine. After pro-Russian separatists took control of the area in 2014, her family had to flee. And now, the whole country has been invaded. Lyuba Yakimchuk reflects on poetry, war, and the burden of a motherland.