Publication of the French translation of the Icelandic essay Deux îles aux confins du monde. Islande et Groenland, by Sumarlidi R. Ísleifsson

Publication of A Bibliography of Canadian Inuit Periodicals, by Sharon Rankin

Publication of the French translation of the novel Split Tooth, Croc fendu

Publication of the novel Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq Gillis

Birth in Ikaluktutiak (Nunavut) of the throat-singer, experimental musician, novelist and visual artist Tanya Tagaq Gillis.

Death in Ilulissat (Greenland) of the pastor, writer and politician Mathias Storch.