Melissa Lucashenko
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Melissa Lucashenko is an Australia
n writer of adult literary fiction and
literary non-fiction who has also written two novels for teenagers.
, Australia
. Her heritage is European and Murri aboriginal. She is a graduate of Griffith University
in 1990 with a honours degree in public policy. Lucashenko's first work to be published was in 1997, with Steam Pigs which won the Dobbie Prize for Australian women's fiction. It was also a short-list nominee for the NSW Premier's Award and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize
. In 1998 she released the novel Killing Darcy which won the Aurora Prize of the Royal Blind Society and was a finalist for the 1998 Aurealis Award for best young-adult novel and named on the 1998 James Tiptree Jr Memorial Award long list. In 1999 her third book, Hard Yards was released and in 2002 her fourth novel Too Flash was published. Hard Yards was a finalist in the 2001 Courier-Mail Book of the Year and the NSW Premier's Award. She also written a few essays. Lucashenko is currently writing fifth novel which is to be set in New South Wales
.
Source: WorldCat.org, melissalucashenko.com.au, Griffithreview.com
Aurora Prize of the Royal Blind Society
Commonwealth Writers' Prize
Courier-Mail Book of the Year
Nita Kibble Literary Award
James Tiptree Jr Memorial Award
NSW Premier's Award
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n writer of adult literary fiction and
literary non-fiction who has also written two novels for teenagers.
Biography
Lucashenko was born in 1967 in BrisbaneBrisbane
Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
. Her heritage is European and Murri aboriginal. She is a graduate of Griffith University
Griffith University
Griffith University is a public, coeducational, research university located in the southeastern region of the Australian state of Queensland. The university has five satellite campuses located in the Gold Coast, Logan City and in the Brisbane suburbs of Mount Gravatt, Nathan and South Bank. Current...
in 1990 with a honours degree in public policy. Lucashenko's first work to be published was in 1997, with Steam Pigs which won the Dobbie Prize for Australian women's fiction. It was also a short-list nominee for the NSW Premier's Award and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize
Commonwealth Writers' Prize
Commonwealth Writers is an initiative by the Commonwealth Foundation to unearth, develop and promote the best new fiction from across the Commonwealth. It's flagship are two literary awards and a website...
. In 1998 she released the novel Killing Darcy which won the Aurora Prize of the Royal Blind Society and was a finalist for the 1998 Aurealis Award for best young-adult novel and named on the 1998 James Tiptree Jr Memorial Award long list. In 1999 her third book, Hard Yards was released and in 2002 her fourth novel Too Flash was published. Hard Yards was a finalist in the 2001 Courier-Mail Book of the Year and the NSW Premier's Award. She also written a few essays. Lucashenko is currently writing fifth novel which is to be set in New South Wales
New South Wales
New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...
.
Novels
- Steam Pigs (1997)
- Killing Darcy (1998)
- Hard Yards (1999)
- Too Flash (2002)
Essays
- Globalisation, Kimberley Style in Our Global Face edition 6
- How Green is My Valley? in Hot Air edition 12
- Not Quite White in the Head
- On the Same Page, right? in Stories for Today edition 26
- Our Bodies in Making Perfect Bodies edition 4
- The Silent Majority in Stories for Today edition 26
- Whiteness
- Who Let the Dogs Out?
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Nominations and awards
Aurealis Awards- Best young-adult novel
- 1998: Nomination: Killing Darcy
Aurora Prize of the Royal Blind Society
- 1998: Won: Killing Darcy
Commonwealth Writers' Prize
Commonwealth Writers' Prize
Commonwealth Writers is an initiative by the Commonwealth Foundation to unearth, develop and promote the best new fiction from across the Commonwealth. It's flagship are two literary awards and a website...
- 1997: Nomination: Steam Pigs
Courier-Mail Book of the Year
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- 2001: Nomination: Hard Yards
Nita Kibble Literary Award
- Dobbie Prize for Australian women's fiction
- 1998: Win: Steam Pigs
James Tiptree Jr Memorial Award
- 1998: Long list: Killing Darcy
NSW Premier's Award
- 1997: Steam Pigs
- 1999: Hard Yards