Inga Clendinnen
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Inga Vivienne Clendinnen AO (born August 17, 1934) is an Australian author and historian, anthropologist and academic.
Born in Geelong, Victoria, Clendinnen graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1955 with a BA (Hons). She sporadically held the post of Senior Tutor of History there from 1955 to 1968, was a Lecturer at La Trobe University from 1969 to 1982, and was then a Senior Lecturer in History until 1989. Forced to curtail her academic activities due to contracting hepatitis, Clendinnen retained an association with La Trobe University while working on her memoir, Tiger's Eye.
In 1999, she was invited to present the 40th annual Boyer Lectures.[1] Her lectures were published in 2000 as True Stories.
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[edit] Published works
- Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570 (1987)
- Aztecs: An Interpretation (1991)
- Reading the Holocaust (1998)
- Tiger's Eye - a Memoir (2000)
- True Stories (2000)
- Dancing with Strangers: Europeans and Australians at First Contact (2004)
- Agamemnon's kiss: selected essays (2006)
[edit] Awards and Nominations
- 1988 - received the 1988 Herbert Eugene Bolton Memorial Prize for Ambivalent Conquests
- 1999 - winner of the NSW History Awards, Premier's General History Prize for Reading the Holocaust
- 1999 - Reading the Holocaust was judged Best Book of the Year by The New York Times
- 2000 - New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Gleebooks Prize for Critical Writing for Reading the Holocaust
- 2002 - received the Adelaide Festival Award for Innovation for Tiger's Eye
- 2004 - New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction for Dancing with Strangers
- 2005 - recipient of the ASA (Australian Society of Authors) biennial medal
- 2006 - Awarded an Officer in the Order of Australia for her services as a writer and historian.[2]
[edit] External links
- Australian Biography Online
- 1999 Boyer Lectures by Inga Clendinnen
- Biography compiled by students of Anthropology at Minnesota State University[dead link – history]
[edit] References
- ^ 1999 Dr Inga Clendinnen, Boyer Lectures. Radio National. Retrieved on 2008-05-04.
- ^ It's an Honour - Officer in the Order of Australia
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