Inga Clendinnen | |
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 Clendinnen at the 2008 Adelaide Writers' Week | |
| Born | Inga Vivienne Jewell 17 August 1934 Geelong, Australia |
| Died | 8 September 2016 (aged 82) |
| Awards | Herbert Eugene Bolton Memorial Prize (1988) Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (1992) New South Wales Premier's General History Prize (1999) New South Wales Premier's Gleebooks Prize for Critical Writing (2000) Adelaide Festival Innovation Writing Prize (2002) Centenary Medal (2003) Queensland Premier's History Book Award (2004) New South Wales Premier's Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction (2004) Kiriyama Prize for Non-Fiction (2004) Australian Society of Authors Medal (2005) Officer of the Order of Australia (2006) Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal (2007) Dan David Prize (2016) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Melbourne La Trobe University |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of Melbourne (1956–68) La Trobe University (1969–91) |
| Main interests | Mesoamerica European contact with indigenous populations |
Inga Clendinnen, AO, FAHA (née Jewell; 17 August 1934 – 8 September 2016) was an Australian author, historian, anthropologist, and academic. Her work focused on social history, and the history of cultural encounters. She was an authority on Aztec civilisation and pre-Columbian ritual human sacrifice. She also wrote about the Holocaust and on first contacts between Indigenous Australians and white explorers. At her death, she was an Emeritus Scholar at La Trobe University, Melbourne.