It will begin before the arrival of Europeans and address what happened at colonisation and what could have been done differently. What she has in mind is a novel about first contact between the Indigenous people and colonists in Brisbane. Lucashenko says she was slightly thrown by winning the Miles for Too Much Lip because she feels that she is now ready to write her 'big book'. The subconscious knows, as Freud famously realised, so much more than we do.' 'I discovered I was writing far closer to home than I realised. Her first novel, Steam Pigs, was published in 1997 and since then her work has received acclaim in many literary awards. When she was about 40,000 words in one of her brothers started talking about his traumas. Melissa Lucashenko is a Goorie author of Bundjalung and European heritage. There were some strange moments during the writing of the book.

Sometimes you do just have to sit there with the Gordian knot that is your brain and work and work in the darkness.' 'I’ve often thought that a book that was hard to write was the wrong book and I’ve discovered that I was wrong. 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.

It follows Kerry Salter, a young Aboriginal woman who has spent her life avoiding two things: her hometown and jail. Melissa Lucashenko is an Indigenous Australian writer of adult literary fiction and literary non-fiction, who has also written novels for teenagers.

Melissa Lucashenko's Miles Franklin-winning novel.įrom her years teaching karate Lucashenko learned 'at an almost molecular level' how to keep going with something. Too Much Lip is a dark and funny novel written by Indigenous Australian author Melissa Lucashenko.

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