Pipaluk Freuchen (15 March 1918 – 8 April 1999) was a Danish-Greenlandic-Swedish writer, best known for her children's book Ivik, den faderløse, which is also known by its English title Eskimo Boy.

[1][2] Her father was the Danish Arctic explorer and adventurer Peter Freuchen, her mother, Navarana Mequpaluk, a Greenlandic Inuk woman whom he married in 1911.

[10] In 1944 Freuchen fled from Nazi occupied Denmark to Sweden with her father[6] and married Bengt Häger [sv], a Swedish choreographer and academic.

[14] It was published in Sweden as part of the Robinson Series for children aged nine to eleven by Geber Förlag [sv].

The Swedish library magazine Biblioteksbladet was disappointed and described it as "a completely ordinary girl's book" and the central character as "grossly idealised".