Inga Clendinnen
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Inga Clendinnen (August 17, 1934 - ) is an Australian author and historian, anthropologist and academic.
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. Her lectures were published in 2000 as True Stories.
[edit] A short list of awards
- Ambivalent Conquests received the 1988 Herbert Eugene Bolton Memorial Prize.
- Reading the Holocaust was judged Best Book of the Year in 1999 by The New York Times
- Tiger's Eye received the Adelaide Festival Award (2002) for Innovation
- 2005 recipient of the ASA (Australian Society of Authors) biennial medal
- Awarded the title of Officer in the Order of Australia in 2006.
[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)
[edit] External links
- Australian Biography Online
- 1999 Boyer Lectures by Inga Clendinnen
- Biography compiled by students of Anthropology at Minnesota State University
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