In conversation with Bec Mac
Too Much Lip
Auditorium 2, State Library of Queensland
Culture/Social Equity / Drama / Urban
320
#Performances
#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 Goorie (Aboriginal) author of Bundjalung and European heritage. Her first novel was published in 1997 and since then her work has received acclaim in many literary awards. Killing Darcy won the Royal Blind Society Award and was shortlisted for an Aurealis award. Her sixth novel, Too Much Lip, won the 2019 Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Queensland Premier’s Award for a work of State Significance. It was also shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Stella Prize, two Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, two Queensland Literary Awards and two NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. Melissa is a Walkley Award winner for her non-fiction, and a founding member of human rights organisation Sisters Inside. She writes about ordinary Australians and the extraordinary lives they lead. Her latest book is Edenglassie.
