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Melissa Lucashenko
Melissa Lucashenko is an Indigenous Australian writer of literary fiction and young adult literature.
In 2013 at the Walkley Awards, she won the Long Feature Writing Award for her piece "Sinking Below Sight: Down and Out in Brisbane and Logan". In 2019, she won the Miles Franklin Award for Too Much Lip.
Melissa Lucashenko was born in 1967 in Brisbane, Australia. She is of Bundjalung and Ukrainian heritage. She graduated from Griffith University in 1990 with a degree in public policy.
In 1992, she was a founding member of Sisters Inside, an organisation that supports women and girls in prison.
She has said that when she began writing seriously "there was still a glaring hole in Australian literature," with almost no prominent Aboriginal voices and with very few outlets publishing the work of Aboriginal writers.
Lucashenko's first work to be published was the novel Steam Pigs (1997), which won the Dobbie Literary Award for debut Australian women writers. It was also shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards Christina Stead Prize for and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book (South East Asia and South Pacific).
In 1998, she released the novel Killing Darcy, which won the Royal Blind Society's Talking Book Award for young readers (also referred to as the Aurora Prize). It was also a finalist for the 1998 Aurealis Award for Best Young Adult Novel and longlisted for the 1998 James Tiptree Award.
In 1999 her third novel, Hard Yards, was published. It was a finalist for the 1999 NSW Premier's Literary Awards and the 2001 Courier-Mail Book of the Year Award. In 2002 her fourth novel Too Flash, written for young adults, was published.
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Melissa Lucashenko
Melissa Lucashenko is an Indigenous Australian writer of literary fiction and young adult literature.
In 2013 at the Walkley Awards, she won the Long Feature Writing Award for her piece "Sinking Below Sight: Down and Out in Brisbane and Logan". In 2019, she won the Miles Franklin Award for Too Much Lip.
Melissa Lucashenko was born in 1967 in Brisbane, Australia. She is of Bundjalung and Ukrainian heritage. She graduated from Griffith University in 1990 with a degree in public policy.
In 1992, she was a founding member of Sisters Inside, an organisation that supports women and girls in prison.
She has said that when she began writing seriously "there was still a glaring hole in Australian literature," with almost no prominent Aboriginal voices and with very few outlets publishing the work of Aboriginal writers.
Lucashenko's first work to be published was the novel Steam Pigs (1997), which won the Dobbie Literary Award for debut Australian women writers. It was also shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards Christina Stead Prize for and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book (South East Asia and South Pacific).
In 1998, she released the novel Killing Darcy, which won the Royal Blind Society's Talking Book Award for young readers (also referred to as the Aurora Prize). It was also a finalist for the 1998 Aurealis Award for Best Young Adult Novel and longlisted for the 1998 James Tiptree Award.
In 1999 her third novel, Hard Yards, was published. It was a finalist for the 1999 NSW Premier's Literary Awards and the 2001 Courier-Mail Book of the Year Award. In 2002 her fourth novel Too Flash, written for young adults, was published.
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