Английская Википедия:Cassandra Pybus
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Use Australian English Шаблон:Infobox writer Cassandra Jean Pybus Шаблон:Post-nominals (born 29 September 1947) is an Australian historian and writer. She is a former professorial fellow in history at the University of Sydney, and has published extensively on Australian and American history.[1]
Pybus was born in Hobart, Tasmania and educated at North Sydney Girls High School and the University of Sydney.[2] Her mother, Betty Pybus, was a pioneer of women's health in Sydney and Tasmania.[3]
From 1989 to 1994, Pybus was editor of the literary magazine Island. She won the Colin Roderick Award in 1993 for Gross Moral Turpitude, a re-examination of the case of Sydney Sparkes Orr, a Northern Irish academic who became embroiled in a scandal involving a relationship with a student whilst working at the University of Tasmania.[4] In 2000, she won an Adelaide Festival Award for Literature for The Devil and James McAuley, a biography of the poet James McAuley.[5]
Pybus was awarded the Centenary Medal in 2001 for outstanding contribution to Tasmanian and Australian literature and education.[6]
In 2020 she was shortlisted for the Nonfiction Book Award at the Queensland Literary Awards for Truganini[7] and for the Nonfiction prize at the 2021 Indie Book Awards[8] as well as the 2021 Biography book of the year at the Australian Book Industry Awards with Truganini.[9] In August 2021 she won the National Biography Award with Truganini,[10] while in November 2021 she was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.[11]
Books
- Truganini: Journey Through the Apocalypse (2020)
- Enterprising Women: Gender Race and Power in the Revolutionary Atlantic (with Kit Candlin; 2015)
- Other Middle Passages (edited with Marcus Rediker and Emma Christopher; 2007)
- Epic Journeys of Freedom: Runaway slaves of the American Revolution and their global quest for liberty (2006)
- Black Founders: The unknown story of Australia's first black settlers (2006)
- The Woman who Walked to Russia: A writer's search for a lost legend (2004)
- American Citizens, British Slaves: Yankee political prisoners in an Australian penal colony, 1839–1850 (with Hamish Maxwell-Stewart; 2002)
- Raven Road (2001)
- The Devil and James McAuley (1999)
- Till Apples Grow on an Orange Tree (1998)
- White Rajah: A Dynastic Intrigue (1996)
- Gross Moral Turpitude: The Orr Case Reconsidered (1993)
- Community of Thieves (1991)
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- Australian women historians
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- People from Hobart
- 21st-century Australian women writers
- 20th-century Australian women writers
- Fellows of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
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