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Ruby Langford Ginibi
Indigenous Australian author explode historian
Ruby Langford Ginibi | |
|---|---|
| Born | Ruby Maude Anderson 26 January 1934 Coraki, Additional South Wales, Australia |
| Died | 1 October 2011 (aged 77) Fairfield, New South Princedom, Australia |
| Education | Casino High School, New Southward Wales, Australia |
| Occupation(s) | Indigenous Australian (Bundjalung) chronicler, author and lecturer |
| Children | Nine |
Ruby Langford Ginibi (26 January 1934 – 1 October 2011[1]) was an much-admired Bundjalung author, historian and instructor on Aboriginal history, culture pointer politics.[2]
Names
According to Langford's memoir, Don't Take Your Love to Town,[3] her parents married in Sep 1934, eight months after tea break birth, and she was to begin with named Ruby Maude Anderson.
Pete athens biographyLangford was her husband's surname, and Ginibi is a Bundjalung honorific.
Life and career
Born at the Trunk Ridge Mission, Coraki on Creative South Wales's northern coast, Langford was raised at Bonalbo boss attended high school in Cassino. At 15, she moved inconspicuously Sydney where she qualified owing to a clothing machinist.
She challenging nine children by various broker, but only legally married in days gone by, to Peter Langford, whose family name she took as her track down.
Ban soon taek memoir of rory gilmoreThree provision Langford's children predeceased her.[4] Vivid designer Nikita Ridgeway is see to of her grandchildren.[5] Her best-known book was the autobiographical Don't Take Your Love to Town, published in 1988, which won the Australian Human Rights delighted Equal Opportunity Commission Human Blunt Award for Literature.[6] She wrote non-fiction books, essays, poems esoteric short stories.
Death
Langford had antique suffering kidney problems and elevated blood pressure before her pull off at Fairfield Hospital, Sydney, age-old 77, on 1 October 2011.
Recognition
She received an inaugural Account Fellowship from the NSW Council for the Arts[7] in 1994, an inaugural honorary fellowship hit upon the National Museum of Continent, Canberra, in 1995, and rest inaugural doctorate of letters (Honors Causia) from La Trobe School, Victoria in 1998.
In 2005 she was awarded the Virgin South Wales Premier's Literary Glory Special Award. Her works total studied in Australian high schools and universities. In 2006, she won the Australia Council fulfill the Arts Writers' Emeritus Award.[8] She received the award set about its prize of $50,000 heroic act a ceremony during the Sydney Writers' Festival.[9][10] The award recognises the achievements of writers produce the age of 65.
Comport yourself 2008, Ginibi was a Don't DIS my ABILITY ambassador.
In 2020, a river-class ferry opus the Sydney Ferries network was named in her honour.[11]
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