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Papers of Bruce Pascoe
MSS 297

Collection Title

Papers of Bruce Pascoe

Collection Identifier

MSS 297

Inclusive date(s)

1970 to 1992

Bulk date(s)

1983 to 1992

Extent and Medium

24 boxes + 1 folio + 1 poster cabinet

Category

Literature

Subject: Person(s)

Subject: Organisation(s)

Collection Description

Literary papers, including for material published by Pascoe Publishing Company. Includes typed manuscripts, galley proofs, correspondence to and from Bruce Pascoe as well as Pascoe Publishing.

Administrative / Biographical history

Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Pascoe

Bruce Pascoe is an Australian Indigenous writer, publisher and anthropologist from the Bunurong clan of the Kulin nation. He has written nearly thirty books, including for children and anthropological non-fiction. In 1982, he founded Pascoe Publishing with his wife Lyn Harwood, which published the quarterly literary journal Australian Short Stories (1982 - 2000) as well as novels and anthologies of other authors.

His work has won or been shortlisted for over a dozen prizes, including 2016 NSW Premier's Literary Awards Book of the Year for Dark Emu (2014). Pascoe has also been awarded several accolades for his work, receiving in 2018 the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature. He was also the 2018 Dreamtime Person of the Year at the National Dreamtime Awards.

Pascoe Publishing published authors including Patrick White (Three Uneasy Pieces, 1987), Frank Hardy (The Loser Now Will Be Later to Win, 1985), Lyn Hughes (The Factory, 1990) as well as anthologies, including Women of the Centre (1990).

References:
Author record, Bruce Pascoe, AustLit (www.austlit.edu.au), St Lucia: The University of Queensland, 2002-. [Retrieved from https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A30613, 29/01/2019].

National Library of Australia. (2019). Finding Aid to the Papers of Bruce Pascoe. Retrieved from: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-415133913/findingaid, 29/01/2019.

Pascoe, B. (2018). About. Retrieved from: http://brucepascoe.com.au/about/, 29/01/2019.

Periodical record, Australian Short Stories, AustLit (www.austlit.edu.au), St Lucia: The University of Queensland, 2002-. [Retrieved from https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/C277304, 29/01/2019].

Acquisition Details

The collection was acquired from Bruce Pascoe in 1992.

Scope and Content

A collection of literary papers of Bruce Pascoe and from Pascoe Publishing Company. Most material dates 1983-1990, with some dated c.1991-2 or to the 1970s. The majority of the collection consists of typewritten manuscripts by various authors for publication by Pascoe Publishing, including for the serial Australian Short Stories (1982-2000) and novels including The Multitude of Tigers (1990), Crims in Gras Castles (1989), Christmas Trees in the Sky (1991), and anthologies including Three Uneasy Pieces (1987), Women of the Centre (1990).

The collection also includes correspondence, both to and from Pascoe Publishing and to and from Bruce Pascoe.

Access Restrictions

Other

Access: Open Access

This collection contains a variety of copyright material. Copyright is held by the creator of each item. Specific conditions for this collection are listed below. If no conditions are stipulated then the standard terms of the Copyright Act apply for published and unpublished items. Digitised material from manuscript collections is provided to clients by UNSW Canberra in good faith for private study and research only, and may not be published or re-purposed without the express and written permission of the individual legal holder of that copyright. Refer also to the UNSW copyright, disclaimer and takedown policy.

Copying: No copying is approved.

Existence and Location of Orginals

Special Collections, UNSW Canberra

Related and Separated Materials

Related Material

Further papers of Bruce Pascoe are held at the National Library of Australia, MS 9746, MSAcc05.069, MS Acc08.165.

Disclaimer

This collection contains a variety of copyright material. Copyright is held by the creator of each item. Specific conditions for this collection are listed above. If no conditions are stipulated then the standard terms of the Copyright Act apply for published and unpublished items. Digitised material from manuscript collections is provided to clients by UNSW Canberra in good faith for private study and research only, and may not be published or re-purposed without the express and written permission of the individual legal holder of that copyright. Refer also to the UNSW copyright, disclaimer and takedown policy.

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