Open Page with Melissa Lucashenko
Melissa Lucashenko is a Goorie (Aboriginal) author of Bundjalung and European heritage. Her first novel was published in 1997, and since then her work has received many literary awards. Her sixth novel, Too Much Lip (2018), won the 2019 Miles Franklin Literary Award. Edenglassie (2023) won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Indie Book Award for Fiction, the BookPeople Adult Fiction Book of the Year, and the Queensland Premier’s Award for a Work of State Significance. Lucashenko’s first essay collection, Not Quite White in the Head, is published this month.
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