Melissa Lucashenko | |
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.jpg) Lucashenko for Griffith Review in 2019 | |
| Born | 1967 (age 56–57) Brisbane, Australia |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Genre | Adult literary fiction, literary non-fiction and novels for teenagers |
| Notable works | Too Much Lip |
| Notable awards | Miles Franklin Award |
| Website | |
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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]
- ^ 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.