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Ruby Langford Ginibi (1934–2011)

Author of Don't Take Your Love to Town

6+ Works 176 Members 9 Reviews

About the Author

Includes the name: Ruby Langford

Works by Ruby Langford Ginibi

Don't Take Your Love to Town (1988) 103 copies
Real deadly (1992) 19 copies
Haunted by the Past (1999) 13 copies
All Ginibi's Mob (2011) 11 copies
All My Mob (2007) 6 copies

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Canonical name
Ginibi, Ruby Langford
Birthdate
1934-01-26
Date of death
2011-10-01
Gender
female
Nationality
Australia
Birthplace
Box Ridge Mission, Coraki, New South Wales, Australia
Place of death
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Places of residence
Bonalbo, New South Wales, Australia
Coonabarabran, New South Wales, Australia
Awards and honors
Australian Human Rights Award for Literature (for "Don't Take Your Love to Town")
Short biography
A Bundjalung woman, an acclaimed author and historian.

She was born at the Box Ridge Mission, Coraki on the NSW north coast of Australia.

Dr Ginibi has written non-fiction books, essays, poems and short stories

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Review scheduled for Indigenous Literature Week at ANZ LitLovers on July 2nd, 2017. Use the tag https://anzlitlovers.com/tag/2017-indigenous-literature-week/ to find it.
 
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anzlitlovers | 2 other reviews | Jun 27, 2017 |
A fascinating history of Aboriginal people living along the northern coast of New South Wales written by one of their own.

Ruby Anderson Langford Ginibi writes history in a style I have never encountered. By doing so, she has introduced me to a different way of looking at the past. Instead of arranging her information in a chronological or topical manner, she takes readers on her journey collecting it. We go along as she and her driver/photographer/adopted daughter return to the region, the “real belonging place” where Ginibi grew up and left years earlier. With them we interview friends and relatives, stop for meals and petrol, and gradually amass stories about people and events from the past. The book is packed with names and family relationships. Political topics important to Indigenous people are put forth. Whites, past and present, are attacked. Ginibi is determined to educate both her own people and the rest of us about the pain her people have suffered and the importance of their contributions to the Australian nation. Her book is important because we so seldom hear the story the way she tells.

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mdbrady | 1 other review | Aug 25, 2012 |
I liked that she wrote the book to tell the story by writing how other relatives told her the story of her family.
 
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Works
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Rating
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Reviews
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ISBNs
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