Mandela, Einstein and ‘Hey Jude’: Larry Audlaluk takes the Proust Questionnaire

By Arty Sarkisian, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Nunatsiaq News Larry Audlaluk is a person of many titles. Writer, politician, activist, High Arctic’s unofficial ambassador and the “Holy Land’s best-known Inuk” after a 1996 visit to Israel — Audlaluk says he is a different person depending on the topic of conversation. When talking about polar bears, Audlaluk is first and foremost a hunter. When talking about the Middle East, he’s a “worried Canadian.” Most of the time, he is one of the world’s few Inuk philosophers, he says. The 74-year-old Grise Fiord resident, who was relocated to Canada’s northernmost community in 1953 at the age of three, took time to answer the Proust Questionnaire. What is your idea of perfect happiness? I don’t know if there’s such a thing as perfect…

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