Bruce Pascoe | |
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 Pascoe c. 2022 | |
| Born | 1947 (age 76–77) Richmond, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Alma mater | University of Melbourne (BEd) |
| Genre | Australian fiction, poetry |
| Subject | Australian Indigenous history |
| Notable works | Fog a Dox (2012) Dark Emu (2014) |
| Notable awards | List of awards
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| Spouse | ? (?–1982) Lyn Harwood (1982– ) |
| Children | 2[1] |
Bruce Pascoe (born 1947) is an Australian writer of literary fiction, non-fiction, poetry, essays and children's literature. As well as his own name, Pascoe has written under the pen names Murray Gray and Leopold Glass. Pascoe identifies as Aboriginal. Since August 2020, he has been Enterprise Professor in Indigenous Agriculture at the University of Melbourne.
Pascoe is best known for his work Dark Emu: Black Seeds: Agriculture or Accident? (2014), in which he argues that traditional Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples engaged in agriculture, engineering and permanent building construction, and that their practices provide possible models for future sustainable development in Australia.
- ^ "Open Page with Bruce Pascoe" (no. 413 ed.). Australian Book Review. August 2019. Retrieved 13 January 2019.