Cassandra Pybus

Biography

Cassandra Pybus is a distinguished historian and writer of creative non-fiction, who is the author of thirteen books. She has been the recipient of several Australia Council Literary Fellowships and a Federation of Australia Centenary Medal for her outstanding contribution to literature. Between 2000 and 2013 she was Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow at the University of Tasmania and then at the University of Sydney. She has been Fulbright Professor at Georgetown University in Washington DC, Distinguished Visiting Professor of History at the University of Texas, and Leverhulme Visiting Professor at King’s College, London. Her most recent book A Very Secret Trade in 2024 was short listed for the Victorian Premier Award and is the last of a trilogy concerned with the destruction of the First People of Tasmania, beginning with Community of Thieves, in 1991, then Truganini in 2020, which won the National Biography Award and was short listed for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award.