Melissa Lucashenko

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Melissa Lucashenko
Born 1967 (age 46–47)
Brisbane, Australia
Nationality Australian
Genres

adult literary fiction and

literary non-fiction, plus two novels for teenagers
www.melissalucashenko.com.au/index.html

Melissa Lucashenko is an Australian writer of adult literary fiction and literary non-fiction who has also written two 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'.

Biography

Lucashenko was born in 1967 in Brisbane, Australia. Her heritage is European and Murri aboriginal. She is a graduate of Griffith University in 1990 with an honours degree in public policy.[1][2] 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.[2] 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.[3][4] 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.[2]

Bibliography

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?

Source: WorldCat.org, melissalucashenko.com.au, Griffithreview.com

Nominations and awards

Aurealis Awards

Aurora Prize of the Royal Blind Society

  • 1998: Won: Killing Darcy

Commonwealth Writers' Prize

  • 1997: Nomination: Steam Pigs

Courier-Mail Book of the Year

    • 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

References

  1. ↑ "Melissa Lucashenko". Griffith Review. Retrieved 2010-04-25. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Home". Melissa Lucashenko. Retrieved 2010-04-25. 
  3. ↑ "The Locus Index to SF Awards: 1999 Aurealis Awards". Locus Online. Retrieved 2010-04-25. 
  4. ↑ "The Locus Index to SF Awards: 1999 James Tiptree Jr Memorial Award". Locus Online. Retrieved 2010-04-25. 

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