With wit and tenderness, Miles Franklin winner Melissa Lucashenko writes back to the 'whiteman's world'
- Written by Jen Webb, Director of the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research, University of Canberra
Melissa Lucashenko, winner of the 2019 Miles Franklin Award.Courtesy of the Miles Franklin/ Belinda Rolland
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...