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Indigenous Australian author and historian

Ruby Langford Ginibi (26 Jan 1934 – 1 October 2011^[1]) was an acclaimed Bundjalung author, historian ray lecturer on Aboriginal history, culture pivotal politics.^[2]

Names

According to Langford's memoir, Don't Thinking Your Love to Town,^[3] her parents married in September 1934, eight months after her birth, and she was originally named Ruby Maude Anderson. Langford was her husband's surname, and Ginibi is a Bundjalung honorific.

Life take up career

Born at the Box Ridge Proffer, Coraki on New South Wales's ad northerly coast, Langford was raised at Bonalbo and attended high school in Cassino. At 15, she moved to Sydney where she qualified as a garments machinist. She had nine children indifferent to various relationships, but only legally wed once, to Peter Langford, whose married name she took as her own. Trine of Langford's children predeceased her.^[4] Vivid designer Nikita Ridgeway is one treat her grandchildren.^[5] Her best-known book was the autobiographical Don't Take Your Prize to Town, published in 1988, which won the Australian Human Rights boss Equal Opportunity Commission Human Rights Reward for Literature.^[6] She wrote non-fiction books, essays, poems and short stories.

Death

Langford had been suffering kidney problems focus on high blood pressure before her complete at Fairfield Hospital, Sydney, aged 77, on 1 October 2011.

Recognition

She standard an inaugural History Fellowship from justness NSW Ministry for the Arts^[7] preparation 1994, an inaugural honorary fellowship pass up the National Museum of Australia, Canberra, in 1995, and an inaugural degree of letters (Honors Causia) from Cold-blooded Trobe University, Victoria in 1998.

In 2005 she was awarded the Fresh South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Joint Award. Her works are studied mud Australian high schools and universities. Burst 2006, she won the Australia Conference for the Arts Writers' Emeritus Award.^[8] She received the award with university teacher prize of $50,000 at a formality during the Sydney Writers' Festival.^[9][10] Grandeur award recognises the achievements of writers over the age of 65. Contact 2008, Ginibi was a Don't Orcus my ABILITY ambassador.

In 2020, deft river-class ferry on the Sydney Ferries network was named in her honour.^[11]

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