In conversation with Bec Mac
Too Much Lip
Auditorium 2, State Library of Queensland
Culture/Social Equity / Drama / Urban
320
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#About the event
Duration: 45 minutes
Central character, Kerry Salter roars in to her old home town on a stolen motorbike. She's planning on a quick trip to farewell her dying Pop - but complicated family ties, a development proposal on the family's beloved river and a handsome 'dugai' (white man), all conspire to keep her in town. Too Much Lip is the latest novel by Melissa Lucashenko, the award-winning author of Mullumbimby.
#Artist
Melissa Lucashenko
Melissa Lucashenko is a multi-award winning Goorie novelist from Brisbane. Her work has been awarded the Miles Franklin Award, the Queensland Deloitte Literary Prize, the Nita B. Kibble Award, The Victorian Premier’s Award for Indigenous Writing, and the NSW Premier’s Literary Award. Melissa has been short or longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award, the Stella Award, the DUBLIN Impact Award, the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, and the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize. Melissa is a Walkley Award winner for her non-fiction, and a founding member of human rights organisation Sisters Inside. Her most recent novel, Too Much Lip (UQP) won the 2019 Miles Franklin Award and 2019 Qld Literary Awards for Best Novel. She is currently working on a new novel.
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