Background
Lucashenko was born in 1967 in Brisbane, Australia.
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Mullumbimby
( When Jo Breen uses her divorce settlement to buy a negl...)
When Jo Breen uses her divorce settlement to buy a neglected property in the Byron Bay hinterland, she is hoping for a tree change, and a blossoming connection to the land of her Aboriginal ancestors. What she discovers instead is sharp dissent from her teenage daughter, trouble brewing from unimpressed white neighbors, and a looming Native Title war between the local Bundjalung families. When Jo unexpectedly finds love on one side of the Native Title divide she quickly learns that living on country is only part of the recipe for the Good Life. Told with dark humor and a sharp, satirical eye, Mullumbimby is a modern novel about romantic love and cultural warfare set against an ancient land.
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Melissa Lucashenko
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Her heritage is European and Murri Aboriginal. She is a graduate of Griffith University in 1990 with an honours degree in public policy. In 1999 her third book, Hard Yards was released and in 2002 her fourth novel Too Flash was published.
Hard Yards was a finalist in the 2001 and the.
New South Wales. Aurealis.
Achievements
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Aurealis Awards Best young-adult novel 1998: Nomination: Killing Darcy Aurora Prize of the Royal Blind Society 1998: Won: Killing Darcy Commonwealth Writers" Prize 1997: Nomination: Steam Pigs Courier-Mail Book of the Year 2001: Nomination: Hard Yards Nita Kibble Literary Award Dobbie Prize for Australian women"s fiction 1998: Win: Steam Pigs James Tiptree Junior Memorial Award 1998: Long list: Killing Darcy NSW Premier"s Award 1997: Steam Pigs 1999: Hard Yards.
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Mullumbimby
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Mullumbimby
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Australia
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Aurealis Award; Commonwealth Writers' Prize; Literary Fiction Prize
The Commonwealth Writers' Prize was a literary award presented by the Commonwealth Foundation, which awarded prizes for established and new writers across the Commonwealth of Nations.; The Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction is an annual literary award for Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror fiction.The Commonwealth Writers' Prize was a literary award presented by the Commonwealth Foundation, which awarded prizes for established and new writers across the Commonwealth of Nations.; The Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction is an annual literary award for Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror fiction.