In 2002 her fourth novel Too Flash, written for young adults, was published.
In 1999 her third novel, Hard Yards was published and was a finalist in both the 1999 NSW Premier's Literary Awards and the 2001 Courier-Mail Book of the Year. In 1998 she released the novel Killing Darcy, which won the Aurora Prize of the Royal Blind Society, 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. It was also a short-list nominee for the NSW Premier's Award and the regional Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Lucashenko's first work to be published was the novel Steam Pigs (1997), which won the Dobbie Literary Award for Australian women's fiction. When asked whether she considers herself primarily a writer, or an Aboriginal writer, she writes that the question runs into semantic difficulties, because the word means different things to different people. She has said that when she began writing seriously "there was still a glaring hole in Australian literature", with almost no prominent Aboriginal voices and with only the University of Queensland Press and a few other small outlets publishing the work of Aboriginal writers. In 1992 she was a founding member of Sisters Inside, an organisation which supports women and girls in prison. She is a graduate of Griffith University (1990), with an honours degree in public policy. Melissa Lucashenko was born in 1967 in Brisbane, Australia. In 2019, she won the Miles Franklin award for Too Much Lip. 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. Walkley Award: Feature Writing Long (over 4000 words).Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Indigenous Writing.Queensland Literary Awards: The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award.Queensland Literary Awards: Queensland Premier's Award for a work of State Significance.
Queensland Literary Awards: Deloitte Fiction Book Award.New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards.Aurora Prize of the Royal Blind Society.Aurealis Award for best young adult novel.
Melissa Lucashenko is an Indigenous Australian writer of adult literary fiction and literary non-fiction, who has also written novels for teenagers.
Adult literary fiction, literary non-fiction and novels for teenagers
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