Bruce Pascoe

Bruce Pascoe (born 1947 Richmond, Victoria) is an Australian Indigenous writer, from the Bunurong clan, of the Kulin nation. He has worked as a teacher, farmer, a fisherman and an Aboriginal language researcher.

Life

He is Director of Commonwealth Australian Studies project. He is working on preserving the Wathaurong language.[1]

His books include Fog a Dox, a book for young adults that won the Prime Minister's Literary Awards in 2013,[2] Convincing Ground about the Convincing Ground massacre,[3] and Dark Emu, a book that challenges the claim that pre-colonial Australian Aboriginal peoples were hunter-gatherers.[4] His research of early settler accounts found accounts of grain cultivation, flour, wells, and dams.[5][6]

He edited Australian Short Stories, from 1982 to 1998.[7]

Works

  • 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
  • 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, 2014, ISBN 9781922142597
  • Dark Emu: Black Seeds: Agriculture Or Accident?, Magabala Books, 2014, ISBN 9781922142436
  • Seahorse, Magabala Books, 2015, ISBN 9781921248931
  • Mrs Whitlam, Magabala Books, 2016, ISBN 9781925360240

References

  1. ↑ "Author profile: Bruce Pascoe". Macquarie Pen Anthology.
  2. ↑ "Fog a Dox by Bruce Pascoe (Magabala Books)". Australian Government ; Attorney-General's Department; Ministry for Arts.
  3. ↑ "Convincing Ground : Learning to Fall in Love with Your Country". AustLit.
  4. ↑ "Dark Emu argues against 'Hunter Gatherer' history of Indigenous Australians". ABC Kimberley. 2 April 2014.
  5. ↑ "Australian Aborigines Were Sophisticated Farmers and Land Managers". The Epoch Times. May 21, 2014.
  6. ↑ http://brucepascoe.com.au/non-fiction/
  7. ↑ http://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A30613
External video
Writer, editor and anthologist Bruce Pascoe, art.afterhours, Jul 14, 2009
  • "A couch chat with Bruce Pascoe". Magabala Books.
  • "Review: Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe". Stumbling through the past. 13 July 2014.
  • "'Dark Emu' by Bruce Pascoe". The Resident Judge of Port Phillip. 13 July 2014.
  • "Bruce Pascoe on the complex question of Aboriginal agriculture". 1 February 2016.


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