Markoosie Patsauq

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Markoosie Patsauq ( ᒫᑯᓯ ᐸᑦᓴᐅᖅ Maakusi Patsa.uq , self-designation with the first name Markoosie , * 1941 in Inukjuaq , Québec ; † 2020 ) was an Inuit- Canadian writer . John Amagoalik is his younger brother.

Life

Markoosie attended primary school in Inukjuaq / Port Harrison. He was one of the families who were resettled by the Canadian government in the high Arctic ( Resolute Bay ) during the Cold War in 1953 . He had tuberculosis before he left , which is why he was admitted to The Pas Hospital in Manitoba for two years in 1954 . Here he received lessons in English, learned some Cree from fellow patients and read comics. In 1961 he graduated from Sir John Franklin High School in Yellowknife ( Northwest Territories ) and in 1967 his pilot's license (training with the aviator Welland Phipps). In 1971 Jean Chrétien (then Minister for Native American Affairs ) appointed him to the board of directors of Panarctic Oils, Ltd. In 1975, Markoosie returned to Inukjuaq, where he worked in public administration from 1978 (Inukjuak Municipal Council, Kativiq Regional Government ).

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Markoosie became known through his story Harpoon of the hunter , which is considered to be the first written Inuit story. The focus is on 16-year-old Kamik, who goes out with the hunters of his settlement to hunt down a presumably rabid polar bear. Kamik's father is killed and Kamik is the only one of the group to survive. When the remaining inhabitants of the settlement move to another settlement, his mother and his future bride and father-in-law drown, whereupon he takes his own life. Kamik's perspective forms the main narrative, with the perspective of Kamik's mother, another resident and the polar bear interwoven.

The work was first published in 1969/70 in Inuktitut in reduced syllabary (without end-of-syllable consonants and length signs ) under the title ᐅᒪᔪᓯᐅᑎ ᐅᓇᑐᐃᓇᒧᑦ (means ᐆᒪᔪᕐᓯᐅᑎ ᐅᓈᑐᐃᓐᓇᒧᑦ Uumajursiuti unaatuinnamut , German `` hunter with only one harpoon '' ), divided into three issues of the magazine ᐃᓄᑎᑐᑦ Inuttituut . In 1970 the author himself made a translation into English as a book with the title Harpoon of the hunter .

Other editions:

  • French: Le harpon du chasseur (1971), transl . Claire Martin
  • German: Die Harpune des Eskimos (1974), transl. Gertrud Rukschcio, Verlag St. Gabriel, Mödling 1974
  • Danish: Harpunjægeren (1995), transl . Vagn Lundbye
  • French / Inuktitut: Le harpon du chasseur (2011), new translation from English by Catherine Ego, Inuktitut in modern syllabary with the title ᐊᖑᓇᓱᑦᑎᐅᑉ ᓇᐅᒃᑯᑎᖓ Angunasuttiup naukkutinga
  • Hindi: शिकारी का हार्पून Shikari ka harpun (2016), from the French by Sanjay Kumar
  • Marathi: शिकाऱ्याचा भाला Shikaryacha bhala (2016), from the French by Jayant Dhupkar

Other works:

  • Wings of mercy (1972/1973)
  • Mémoires (1991)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Markoosie: Le Harpon du chasseur . Presses de l'Université du Québec, 2011, ISBN 978-2-7605-3088-1 , pp. 184 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ Obituary of March 9, 2020, accessed April 5, 2020
  3. ↑ ipl2: Native American authors ( Memento of the original dated June 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ipl.org
  4. ↑ a b Iqqaumavara: Markoosie Patsauq - his story
  5. ^ Ebba Olofsson: The story of Markoosie Patsauq's trip to the TB sanatorium in The Pas . In: Makivik magazine . No. 83 , 2007, pp. 18-23 ( qc.ca ).
  6. ↑ Robin McGrath: The influence of comics on Inuit art and literature . In: Inuit art quarterly . tape 4 , no. 1 , 1989, pp. 4–8 ( inuitartfoundation.org [PDF]).
  7. ^ Stephan Wilkinson: The world of Weldy Phipps . In: Flying . March 1971, p. 54–63 ( full text in Google Book Search). (with picture by Markoosie)
  8. ↑ a b Library and Archives Canada , LMS-0017
  9. ^ Daniel Chartier: The first Inuit novel written ; Sanaaq by Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk was written from 1953, i.e. earlier, but was not published until 1984.
  10. ↑ Inuttituut , Summer 1969 pp. 24–35, Winter 1969 pp. 29–36, Spring & Summer 1970 pp. 27–35
  11. ↑ शिकाऱ्याचा भाला  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (wrongly with the cover of the Hindi edition)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.crilcq.org  
  12. ↑ Wings of Mercy ; originally in five parts in- house
  13. ^ In: Rencontre . Volume 13, No. 2, 1991, pp. 9-11
personal data
SURNAME Patsauq, Markoosie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Markoosia; ᒫᑯᓯ ᐸᑦᓴᐅᖅ (iu)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH at Inukjuaq
DATE OF DEATH 2020