Ruby Langford Ginibi

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Ruby Langford Ginibi (born 1934 at the Box Ridge Mission, Coraki on the NSW north coast), is a Bundjalung woman, an acclaimed author and historian.

She grew up at Bonalbo and went to high school in Casino.

At 15, she moved to Sydney where she qualified as a clothing machinist. She married young and had nine children, and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Like many women writers, she didn't start her writing career until later in life.

Her most well-known book is her autobiographical work, Don't Take Your Love to Town, published in 1988, which won the Australian Human Rights Award for Literature.

She received an inaugural History Fellowship from the NSW Ministry for the Arts in 1994, an inaugural honorary fellowship from the National Museum of Australia, Canberra, in 1995, and an inaugural doctorate of letters (Honors Causia) from La Trobe University, Victoria in 1998.

In 2005 she was awarded NSW Ministry for the Arts Special Award. She is a historian and lecturer on Aboriginal history, culture and politics. Her works are studied in Australian high schools and universities.

She recently won the 2006 Australia Council for the Arts Writers' Emeritus Award.

Dr Ginibi received the award, and prize of up to $50,000, at a ceremony during the Sydney Writers' Festival. The award recognises the achievements of writers over the age of 65.

Dr Ginibi has written four non-fiction books, plus many essays, poems and short stories.

[edit] Bibliography

• Don't Take Your Love to Town, (Penguin, 1988)
• Real Deadly, (1992)
• My Bundjalung People, (UQP, 1994)
• Haunted by the Past, (1999)

[edit] External links

• Approaches to Don't Take Your Love to Town at Australian Women's Studies Resources

Persondata
NAME	Langford Ginibi, Ruby
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Indigenous Australian author and historian
DATE OF BIRTH	1934
PLACE OF BIRTH	Coraki, New South Wales, Australia
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH