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Melissa Lucashenko
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- > Humorous Fiction
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- > Contemporary Women Fiction
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- > Anthropology
- > Cultural Anthropology
Melissa Lucashenko is an Indigenous Australian writer of adult literary fiction and literary non-fiction, who has also written 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. In 2019, she won the Miles Franklin award for Too Much Lip.