Melissa Lucashenko
Melissa Lucashenko is a Goorie author of Bundjalung and European heritage. Her first novel, Steam Pigs, was published in 1997 and since then her work has received acclaim in many literary awards.
She writes about ordinary Australians and the extraordinary lives they lead. Her sixth novel Too Much Lip won the 2019 Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Queensland Premier’s Award for a Work of State Significance. It was also shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Stella Prize, two Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, two Queensland Literary Awards and two NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. Her latest novel published in 2023 is the extraordinary Edenglassie, with a dual narrative set in colonial and contemporary times, imagining a way to a new Australian future. Edenglassie has already been shortlisted for the Victoria Premier’s Literary Awards and Indie Awards.
Melissa is also a Walkley Award winner for her non-fiction, and
a founding member of human rights organisation Sisters Inside. Melissa has been a script assessor for Screen Australia and
Screen NSW for two decades, and has advised on multiple feature,
documentary and drama projects including The Australian
Dream and River.
She writes about ordinary Australians and the extraordinary lives they lead. Her sixth novel Too Much Lip won the 2019 Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Queensland Premier’s Award for a Work of State Significance. It was also shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Stella Prize, two Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, two Queensland Literary Awards and two NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. Her latest novel published in 2023 is the extraordinary Edenglassie, with a dual narrative set in colonial and contemporary times, imagining a way to a new Australian future. Edenglassie has already been shortlisted for the Victoria Premier’s Literary Awards and Indie Awards.
Melissa is also a Walkley Award winner for her non-fiction, and
a founding member of human rights organisation Sisters Inside. Melissa has been a script assessor for Screen Australia and
Screen NSW for two decades, and has advised on multiple feature,
documentary and drama projects including The Australian
Dream and River.
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