Bruce Pascoe

A man of Yuin and Bunurong/Tasmanian heritage now living in East Gippsland, Bruce Pascoe published and edited Australian Short Stories magazine from 1982-1999.

 

He is a board member for the Aboriginal Corporation for Languages.

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Awards:

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• Prime Minister's Literature Award for Young Adult fiction 2013

• Radio National Short Story 1998

• FAW Short Story 2010

• New South Wales Premiers' Book of the Year 2016

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He was awarded the Australia Council for the Arts Lifetime Achievement Award for Literature in 2018.

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Books include:

• Night Animals

• Shark

• Ocean

• Bloke

• Cape Otay

• Convincing Ground

• Little red yellow and black book

• Chainsaw file

• Fog

• Mrs Whitlam

• Dark Emu

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Dark Emu, was performed by the Bangarra Dance Theatre in 2018.

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Read more about Bruce Pascoe here.