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With wit and tenderness, Miles Franklin winner Melissa Lucashenko writes back to the ‘whiteman’s world’
Too Much Lip joins the other prizewinning volumes in Melissa Lucashenko’s trophy cabinet.
Her first-ever novel, Steam Pigs (1997), was shortlisted for or won several major prizes, and in the past two decades her books have racked up 26 awards.
- Jen Webb
- The Converstion
Today’s win confirms her status as one of Australia’s top writers of contemporary fiction.
Lucashenko has a marvellous knack of crafting fictions that are both drenched in…