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Melissa Lucashenko
Lucashenko for Griffith Review in 2019
Lucashenko for Griffith Review in 2019
Born1967 (age 56–57)
Brisbane, Australia
OccupationWriter
NationalityAustralian
GenreAdult literary fiction, literary non-fiction and novels for teenagers
Notable worksToo Much Lip
Notable awardsMiles Franklin Award
Website
www.melissa-lucashenko.com

Melissa Lucashenko is an Indigenous Australian writer of adult literary fiction and literary non-fiction, who has also written novels for teenagers.

In 2013 at The Walkley Awards, she won the "Feature Writing Long (over 4000 words) 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.[1]

  1. ^ Bookshelf, ABC Arts Kate Evans for RN's The (30 July 2019). "Miles Franklin awarded to Indigenous author for 'novel of celebratory defiance'". ABC News. Retrieved 1 August 2019.

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