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*1998: Winner of the [[ABC Radio National]] Short Story Competition<ref name=macquarie/> |
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*1999: Joint winner (with [[David Foster (novelist)|David Foster]]) of the [[Fellowship_of_Australian_Writers#Awards|FAW Australian Literature Award]] for ''Shark''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/library/finding-aids/guide-papers-david-foster|website=UNSW Canberra|title=Guide to the papers of David Foster|access-date=17 October 2019}}</ref><ref name=macquarie/> |
*1999: Joint winner (with [[David Foster (novelist)|David Foster]]) of the [[Fellowship_of_Australian_Writers#Awards|FAW Australian Literature Award]] for ''Shark''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/library/finding-aids/guide-papers-david-foster|website=UNSW Canberra|title=Guide to the papers of David Foster|access-date=17 October 2019}}</ref><ref name=macquarie/> |
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*2013: Prime Minister's Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Lee |first1=Bronwyn |title=Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2013 |url=https://theconversation.com/prime-ministers-literary-awards-2013-17138 |website=The Conversation |publisher=The Conversation |accessdate=4 January 2020}}</ref> |
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*2016: [[New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards|NSW Premier's Literary Award]] for ''[[Dark Emu (book)|Dark Emu]]''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-16/bruce-pascoes-dark-emu-wins-nsw-premiers-literary-prize/7419002|title=Bruce Pascoe's Dark Emu wins NSW Premier's Literary prize|last=Rice|first=Deborah|date=2016-05-16|website=ABC News|language=en-AU|access-date=2019-05-20}}</ref> |
*2016: [[New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards|NSW Premier's Literary Award]] for ''[[Dark Emu (book)|Dark Emu]]''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-16/bruce-pascoes-dark-emu-wins-nsw-premiers-literary-prize/7419002|title=Bruce Pascoe's Dark Emu wins NSW Premier's Literary prize|last=Rice|first=Deborah|date=2016-05-16|website=ABC News|language=en-AU|access-date=2019-05-20}}</ref> |
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*2016: [[New South Wales Premier's Indigenous Writers' Prize]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/indigenous-writers-rise-to-the-top-of-the-2016-nsw-premiers-literary-awards-20160516-gow2qt.html|title=Indigenous writers rise to the top of the 2016 NSW Premier's Literary Awards|last=Wyndham|first=Susan|date=17 May 2016|work=Sydney Morning Herald|access-date=23 May 2017}}</ref> |
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*2018: Lifetime Achievement Award by the [[Australia Council for the Arts|Australia Council]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.australiacouncil.gov.au/news/events/australia-council-awards/awards-recipients/|title=Australia Council Awards {{!}} Australia Council|website=www.australiacouncil.gov.au|access-date=2019-03-04}}</ref> |
*2018: Lifetime Achievement Award by the [[Australia Council for the Arts|Australia Council]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.australiacouncil.gov.au/news/events/australia-council-awards/awards-recipients/|title=Australia Council Awards {{!}} Australia Council|website=www.australiacouncil.gov.au|access-date=2019-03-04}}</ref> |
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*2019: [[Dreamtime Person of the Year]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2018/11/21/119983/pascoe-receives-person-of-the-year-honour-at-2018-national-dreamtime-awards/|title=Pascoe receives Person of the Year honour at 2018 National Dreamtime Awards|last=|first=|date=2018-11-21|website=Books+Publishing|language=en-AU|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-08-06}}</ref> |
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==Works== |
==Works== |
Revision as of 08:22, 4 January 2020
Bruce Pascoe | |
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Born | 1947 (age 76–77) Richmond, Victoria |
Occupation | Writer |
Nationality | Australian |
Alma mater | University of Melbourne (BEd) |
Genre | Australian fiction, poetry |
Subject | Australian Indigenous history |
Notable works | Fog a Dox (2012) Dark Emu (2014) |
Notable awards | List of awards
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Spouse | Lyn Harwood |
Website | |
brucepascoe |
Bruce Pascoe (born 1947) is an Aboriginal Australian writer of literary fiction, non-fiction, poetry, essays and children's literature. As well as his own name, Pascoe has written under the pen names Murray Gray and Leopold Glass.
Pascoe is best known for his work Dark Emu: Black Seeds: Agriculture or Accident?, which reexamines colonial accounts of Aboriginal people in Australia and cites evidence of pre-colonial agriculture, engineering and building construction by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Early life and education
Pascoe was born in Richmond, Victoria in 1947,[1] growing up in a poor working-class family, who did not tell him the details of his heritage. In his early thirties he started investigating his ancestry, remembering his uncle having mentioned Aboriginal ancestry, and identified himself as Koori by the age of 40. He found Aboriginal ancestors on both sides of his family, including from Tasmania (Palawa[2]), from the Bunurong people of the Kulin nation of Victoria, and the Yuin of southern New South Wales.[3][4][5]
He acknowledges his Cornish and European colonial ancestry as well as his love of "the broader Australian culture", but says that he feels Aboriginal, saying “It doesn’t matter about the colour of your skin, it’s about how deeply embedded you are in the culture. It’s the pulse of my life”. He said that his family denied their own Aboriginality for a long time, and it was only when he investigated the “glaring absences” in the family's story that he was drawn into Aboriginal society and culture.[6]
Pascoe spent his early years on King Island where his father worked as a carpenter at the tungsten mine. His family moved to Mornington, Victoria, when he was 10 years old, and then two years later moved to the Melbourne suburb of Fawkner. He attended the local state school before completing his secondary education at University High School, where his sister had won an academic scholarship. Pascoe went on to attend the University of Melbourne, initially studying commerce but then transferring to Melbourne State College. After graduating with a Bachelor of Education,[7] he was posted to a small township near Shepparton. He later taught at Bairnsdale for nine years.[8]
Career
While on leave from his teaching career, Pascoe bought a 300-hectare (740-acre) mixed farming property and occasionally worked as a abalone fisherman. In his spare time he began writing short stories, poetry and newspaper articles. After separating from his wife in 1982, he moved back to Melbourne and sought to publish a journal of short stories. He came into conflict with existing publishers and instead decided to form his own company, raising $10,000 in capital with his friend Lorraine Phelan. Their company Pascoe Press began publishing Australian Short Stories as a quarterly magazine in 1982. It came close to selling out its initial print run of 20,000.[8]
Pascoe edited and published the quarterly magazine of short fiction, Australian Short Stories, which published all forms of short stories by both established and new writers, including Helen Garner, Gillian Mears and Tim Winton,[3] from 1982 to 1998. He ran Pascoe Publishing and Seaglass Books with his wife, Lyn Harwood.[5][1]
As of December 2019 Pascoe is professor at the Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education & Research at the University of Technology Sydney,[7] while living on a 60 hectares (150 acres) farm near Mallacoota, on the eastern coast of Victoria.[3] He is also working for his family-run company, Black Seed Food, that is aiming to produce the type of Indigenous produce mentioned in Dark Emu on a commercial scale.[9]
Indigenous focus
In the early 2000s, Pascoe started writing about Indigenous Australians' dispossession, and became more interested in Aboriginal spirituality and traditions.[3]
Convincing Ground: Learning to Fall in Love with Your Country (2007), whose title is drawn from the Convincing Ground massacre, examines historical documents and eyewitness accounts of incidents in Australian history and ties them in with the "ongoing debates about identity, dispossession, memory and community". It is described in the publisher's blurb as a book "for all Australians, as an antidote to the great Australian inability to deal respectfully with the nation's constructed Indigenous past".[10][11] In this book and in interviews, Pascoe admits that his Aboriginal ancestry is distant, and that he is “more Cornish than Koori”. However in the wider community, Pascoe’s identification as Aboriginal is accepted, and he has often been bestowed with the honorific term “Uncle”. He was nominated as Person of the Year at the National Dreamtime Awards 2018, and was also invited by Yuin elder Max Dulumunmum Harrison to a special cultural ceremony lasting several days.[3]
Pascoe featured in the award-winning documentary series which aired on SBS Television in 2008, First Australians,[5] has been Director of Commonwealth Australian Studies project for the Commonwealth Schools Commission,[5] and worked on preserving the Wathaurong language.[1]
Fog a Dox, a story for young adults, won the Prime Minister's Literary Awards in 2013 and was shortlisted for the 2013 WA Premier’s Book Awards (Young Adult category) and the 2013 Deadly Awards (Published Book of the Year category).[12]
Pascoe attracted a crowd of young music fans at the Rainbow Serpent Festival in January 2019.[3] Pascoe and historian Bill Gammage contributed text accompaniments for exhibits by Wiradjuri/Kamilaroi artist Jonathan Jones in the Tarnanthi 2019 exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia, entitled Bunha-bunhanga: Aboriginal agriculture in the south-east.[13]
Dark Emu
Dark Emu: Black Seeds: Agriculture or Accident?, first published in 2014, challenged the claim that pre-colonial Australian Aboriginal peoples were hunter-gatherers.[14] Pascoe's research of early settler accounts found accounts of grain cultivation, flour, wells, and dams.[15][16] The book was well-received. A favourable review of its cultural implications in the academic online magazine The Conversation touched off a debate there about Pascoe's use of his historical sources.[17] A version of the book for younger readers, entitled Young Dark Emu: A Truer History, was published in 2019.[18] This work has been shortlisted for the 2020 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature in the Children's Literature Award section.[19]
In October 2019 it was announced that a documentary film of Dark Emu would be made for television by Blackfella Films, co-written by Pascoe with Jacob Hickey, directed by Erica Glynn and produced by Darren Dale and Belinda Mravicic.[20]
Awards
- 1999: Joint winner (with David Foster) of the FAW Australian Literature Award for Shark[21][1]
- 2013: Prime Minister's Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction.[22]
- 2016: NSW Premier's Literary Award for Dark Emu[23]
- 2016: New South Wales Premier's Indigenous Writers' Prize[24]
- 2018: Lifetime Achievement Award by the Australia Council[25]
- 2019: Dreamtime Person of the Year.[26]
Works
The following list is a selection of the 182 items by Pascoe as listed on Austlit as of December 2019:[27]
- A Corner Full of Characters, Blackstone Press, 1981, ISBN 0959387005
- Night Animals, Penguin Books, 1986, ISBN 9780140087420
- Fox, McPhee Gribble/Penguin books, 1988, ISBN 9780140114089
- Ruby-eyed Coucal, Magabala Books, 1996, ISBN 9781875641291
- Wathaurong : Too bloody strong : Stories and life journeys of people from Wathaurong, Pascoe Publishing, 1997, ISBN 0947087311
- Cape Otway: Coast of secrets (1997)
- Shark, Magabala Books, 1999, ISBN 9781875641482
- Nightjar, Seaglass Books, 2000, ISBN 9780947087357
- Earth, Magabala Books, 2001, ISBN 1875641610
- Ocean, Bruce Sims Books, 2002, ISBN 9780957780064
- Foxies in a Firehose : A piece of doggerel from Warragul, Seaglass Books, 2006, ISBN 0947087362
- Bloke. Penguin Books Limited. 3 August 2009. ISBN 978-0-85796-558-5.
- Convincing Ground: Learning to Fall in Love with Your Country. Aboriginal Studies Press. 2007. ISBN 978-0-85575-549-2.
- The Little Red Yellow Black Book : An introduction to indigenous Australia, Aboriginal Studies Press, 2008, ISBN 9780855756154
- Fog a Dox, Magabala Books, 2012, ISBN 9781922142597
- Dark Emu: Black Seeds: Agriculture Or Accident?, Magabala Books, 2014, ISBN 9781922142436[28][29]
- Seahorse, Magabala Books, 2015, ISBN 9781921248931
- Mrs Whitlam, Magabala Books, 2016, ISBN 9781925360240
- Young Dark Emu: A Truer History, Magabala Books, 2019, ISBN 9781925360844
- Salt: Selected Stories and Essays, Black Inc, 2019, ISBN 9781760641580[30]
Pascoe has also produced a language learning CD-ROM, film, and teachers' book and a Wathaurong dictionary for the Wathaurong Aboriginal Co-op, Geelong, Victoria.[1]
He has also written under the names Murray Gray (The Great Australian Novel: At Last it's Here, a 1984 satirical novel[31]) and Leopold Glass (Ribcage: All You Need Is $800,000 - Quickly, a 1999 detective novel[32]).[5]
References
- ^ a b c d e "Author profile: Bruce Pascoe". Macquarie Pen Anthology. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
- ^ "Talk: 60,000 years of tradition meets the microscopic world". Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences. 2018. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
- ^ a b c d e f Guilliatt, Richard (25 May 2019). "Turning history on its head". The Australian. Weekend Australian Magazine. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
- ^ Pascoe, Bruce (1 February 2016). "Bruce Pascoe on the complex question of Aboriginal agriculture". Australian Broadcasting Corporation (Radio National) (Interview). Conversations with Richard Fidler. Interviewed by Richard Fidler. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
- ^ a b c d e "Bruce Pascoe". Austlit. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
- ^ Tan, Monica. "Indigenous writer Bruce Pascoe: 'We need novels that are true to the land'". Books. The Guardian. Retrieved 1 December 2019.
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- ^ a b Connelly, Patrick (26 March 1983). "A comeback for the short story?". The Canberra Times.
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- ^ Pascoe, Bruce (2007). Convincing Ground: Learning to Fall in Love with Your Country [Publisher's blurb]. Aboriginal Studies Press. ISBN 978-0-85575-549-2. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
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- ^ Marsh, Walter (1 October 2019). "Jonathan Jones and Bruce Pascoe offer a timely illustration of Aboriginal lands on the cusp of colonisation". Retrieved 17 October 2019.
- ^ "Dark Emu argues against 'Hunter Gatherer' history of Indigenous Australians". ABC Kimberley. 2 April 2014.
- ^ "Australian Aborigines Were Sophisticated Farmers and Land Managers". The Epoch Times. 21 May 2014.
- ^ Pascoe, Bruce. "Non-fiction". Bruce Pascoe. Archived from the original on 26 April 2019.
- ^ "Dark Emu and the blindness of Australian agriculture" by Tony Hughes-D'Aeth, 15 June 2018.
- ^ "Young Dark Emu: A Truer History". Magabala. 2019. ISBN 9781925360844. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
- ^ "Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature". State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
- ^ "Dark Emu to be adapted as TV documentary". Arts Hub. Publishing. 18 October 2019. Retrieved 20 October 2019.
- ^ "Guide to the papers of David Foster". UNSW Canberra. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
- ^ Lee, Bronwyn. "Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2013". The Conversation. The Conversation. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
- ^ Rice, Deborah (16 May 2016). "Bruce Pascoe's Dark Emu wins NSW Premier's Literary prize". ABC News. Retrieved 20 May 2019.
- ^ Wyndham, Susan (17 May 2016). "Indigenous writers rise to the top of the 2016 NSW Premier's Literary Awards". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 23 May 2017.
- ^ "Australia Council Awards | Australia Council". www.australiacouncil.gov.au. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
- ^ "Pascoe receives Person of the Year honour at 2018 National Dreamtime Awards". Books+Publishing. 21 November 2018. Retrieved 6 August 2019.
- ^ "Bruce Pascoe (182 works by)". Retrieved 3 December 2019.
- ^ "Review: Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe". Stumbling through the past. 13 July 2014. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
- ^ "'Dark Emu' by Bruce Pascoe". The Resident Judge of Port Phillip. 13 July 2014. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
- ^ Kinnane, Steve (November 2019). "Salt: Selected stories and essays by Bruce Pascoe". Australian Book Review (416). Retrieved 3 December 2019.
- ^ "Murray Gray". Austlit. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
- ^ "Leopold Glass". Austlit. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
Further reading
- Griffiths, Tom (26 November 2019). "Reading Bruce Pascoe". Inside Story. ISSN 1837-0497. – Review of Salt: Selected Stories and Essays, which also covers other work and life of Pascoe
- Morton, Rick (30 November – 6 December 2019). "Bolt, Pascoe and the culture wars". The Saturday Paper (281).
- Pascoe, Bruce. Talk given on 8 July 2000. art.afterhours - Writer, editor and anthologist Bruce Pascoe on YouTube, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 14 July 2009