Pascoe went on to attend the University of Melbourne, initially studying commerce but then transferring to Melbourne State College. He attended the local state school before completing his secondary education at University High School, where his sister had won an academic scholarship. His family moved to Mornington, Victoria, when he was 10 years old, and then two years later moved to the Melbourne suburb of Fawkner. Pascoe spent his early years on King Island where his father worked at the tungsten mine. He grew up in a poor working-class family his father, Alf, was a carpenter, and his mother, Gloria Pascoe, went on to win a gold medal in lawn bowls at the 1980 Arnhem Paralympics.
Pascoe was born in Richmond, Victoria in 1947. Pascoe is best known for his work Dark Emu: Black Seeds: Agriculture or Accident? (2014), in which he argues that traditional Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples engaged in agriculture, engineering and permanent building construction, and that their practices provide possible models for future sustainable development in Australia. Since August 2020, he has been Enterprise Professor in Indigenous Agriculture at the University of Melbourne. As well as his own name, Pascoe has written under the pen names Murray Gray and Leopold Glass. Australia Council for the Arts Lifetime Achievement Award (2018)īruce Pascoe (born 1947) is an Aboriginal Australian writer of literary fiction, non-fiction, poetry, essays and children's literature.New South Wales Premier's Indigenous Writers' Prize (2016).New South Wales Premier's Literary Award for Book of the Year (2016).The Deadlys Published book of the year (2013).Prime Minister's Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction (2013).Fellowship of Australian Writers Literature Award (1999).
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