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Ruby Langford Ginibi (Ruby Maude Anderson) was born on 26 January, 1934 in Coraki, New South Wales, Australia, is an Indigenous Australian author and historian. Discover Ruby Langford Ginibi's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 77 years old?

Popular As Ruby Maude Anderson
Occupation Indigenous Australian (Bundjalung) historian, author and lecturer
Age 77 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 26 January 1934
Birthday 26 January
Birthplace Coraki, New South Wales, Australia
Date of death 1 October, 2011
Died Place Fairfield, New South Wales, Australia
Nationality Australia

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1934

Ruby Langford Ginibi (26 January 1934 – 1 October 2011 ) was an acclaimed Bundjalung author, historian and lecturer on Aboriginal history, culture and politics.

According to Langford's memoir, Don't Take Your Love to Town, her parents married in September 1934, eight months after her birth, and she was originally named Ruby Maude Anderson.

Langford was her husband's surname, and Ginibi is a Bundjalung honorific.

Born at the Box Ridge Mission, Coraki on New South Wales's northern coast, Langford was raised at Bonalbo and attended high school in Casino.

At 15, she moved to Sydney where she qualified as a clothing machinist.

She had nine children by various relationships, but only legally married once, to Peter Langford, whose surname she took as her own.

Three of Langford's children predeceased her.

Graphic designer Nikita Ridgeway is one of her grandchildren.

1988

Her best-known book was the autobiographical Don't Take Your Love to Town, published in 1988, which won the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Human Rights Award for Literature.

She wrote non-fiction books, essays, poems and short stories.

1994

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.

2005

In 2005 she was awarded the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Special Award.

Her works are studied in Australian high schools and universities.

2006

In 2006, she won the Australia Council for the Arts Writers' Emeritus Award.

She received the award with its prize of $50,000 at a ceremony during the Sydney Writers' Festival.

The award recognises the achievements of writers over the age of 65.

2008

In 2008, Ginibi was a Don't DIS my ABILITY ambassador.

2011

Langford had been suffering kidney problems and high blood pressure before her death at Fairfield Hospital, Sydney, aged 77, on 1 October 2011.

2020

In 2020, a river-class ferry on the Sydney Ferries network was named in her honour.