Cassandra Pybus | |
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Born | Cassandra Jean Pybus 29 September 1947 Hobart, Tasmania, Australia |
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Language | English |
Nationality | Australian |
Education | North Sydney Girls High School |
Alma mater | University of Sydney |
Notable awards | Colin Roderick Award (1993) National Biography Award (2021) |
Cassandra Jean Pybus FAHA (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: Journey Through the Apocalypse [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]
Her 2024 book, A Very Secret Trade, was shortlisted for the 2025 Victorian Premier's Prize for Nonfiction. [12]
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