Cassandra Pybus Explained

Cassandra Pybus
Birth Name:Cassandra Jean Pybus
Birth Date:1947 9, df=yes
Birth Place:Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Language:English
Nationality:Australian
Education:North Sydney Girls High School
Alma Mater:University of Sydney
Awards:Colin Roderick Award (1993)
National Biography Award (2021)

Cassandra Jean Pybus (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. Her mother, Betty Pybus, was a pioneer of women's health in Sydney and Tasmania.[2]

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.[3] In 2000, she won an Adelaide Festival Award for Literature for The Devil and James McAuley, a biography of the poet James McAuley.[4]

Pybus was awarded the Centenary Medal in 2001 for outstanding contribution to Tasmanian and Australian literature and education.[5]

In 2020 she was shortlisted for the Nonfiction Book Award at the Queensland Literary Awards for Truganini[6] and for the Nonfiction prize at the 2021 Indie Book Awards[7] as well as the 2021 Biography book of the year at the Australian Book Industry Awards with Truganini.[8] In August 2021 she won the National Biography Award with Truganini,[9] while in November 2021 she was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.[10]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Professor Cassandra Pybus. Department of History. University of Sydney. 25 April 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160509004212/http://sydney.edu.au/arts/history/staff/profiles/cpybus.shtml. 9 May 2016. dead.
  2. Web site: Betty Jean Vyvyan Pybus OAM. Honour Roll of Women. Government of Tasmania. 25 April 2016.
  3. Web site: Colin Roderick Award. James Cook University. 25 April 2016.
  4. Web site: Tasmania: The Tipping Point?. University of Sydney. 25 April 2016.
  5. Web site: PYBUS, Cassandra. It's an Honour. Australian Government. 25 April 2016.
  6. Web site: 2020-08-05. Queensland Literary Awards 2020 shortlists announced. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20200919104133/https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2020/08/05/154726/queensland-literary-awards-2020-shortlists-announced/ . 19 September 2020 . 2020-08-06. Books+Publishing. en-AU.
  7. Web site: 2021-01-20. Indie Book Awards 2021 shortlists announced. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20210120005004/https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2021/01/20/161529/indie-book-awards-2021-shortlists-announced/ . 20 January 2021 . 2021-01-20. Books+Publishing. en-AU.
  8. Web site: 2021-04-12. ABIA 2021 shortlists announced. live. 2021-04-12. Books+Publishing. en-AU. https://web.archive.org/web/20210412051001/https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2021/04/12/184964/abia-2021-shortlists-announced/ . 12 April 2021 .
  9. Web site: 2021-08-05. National Biography Award winner's announced on ABC Sydney. 2021-08-26. ABC Radio. en.
  10. Web site: Fellow Profile: Cassandra Pybus . 2024-08-04 . Australian Academy of the Humanities . en-AU.