Melissa Lucashenko

Melissa Lucashenko
Born	1967 (age 43–44) Brisbane, Australia
Nationality	Australian
Genres	adult literary fiction and literary non-fiction, plus two novels for teenagers
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Melissa Lucashenko is an Australian writer of adult literary fiction and literary non-fiction who has also written two novels for teenagers.

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 a 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

• Best young-adult novel
  • 1998: Nomination: Killing Darcy

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. http://www.griffithreview.com/contributors/userprofile/lucashenko_melissa.html. Retrieved 2010-04-25. 
2. ^ ^{a b c} "Home". Melissa Lucashenko. http://www.melissalucashenko.com.au/index.html. Retrieved 2010-04-25. 
3. ^ "The Locus Index to SF Awards: 1999 Aurealis Awards". Locus Online. http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Aurealis1999.html. Retrieved 2010-04-25. 
4. ^ "The Locus Index to SF Awards: 1999 James Tiptree Jr Memorial Award". Locus Online. http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Tiptree1999.html. Retrieved 2010-04-25. 

External links

• Official site
• Nathanael O'Reilly 'Exploring Indigenous Indentity in Suburbia: Melissa Lucashenko's Steam Pigs ' JASAL 10 (2010)

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Name	Lucashenko, Melissa
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Date of birth	1967
Place of birth	Brisbane, Australia
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