Melissa Lucashenko wins $30,000 prize for novel that ‘elevates our understanding of Queensland’s soul’
by Dee Jefferson from World news | The Guardian on (#6QG6V)
Edenglassie, about the colonisation of the place now called Brisbane, has won the highest accolade at the 2024 Queensland literary awards
Melissa Lucashenko's historical novel Edenglassie, about the colonisation of Magandjin/Meanjin/Brisbane, has won the highest accolade at the Queensland literary awards, with the judges praising it as a work that elevates our understanding of Queensland's soul".
It's the second time Lucashenko has taken out the $30,000 premier's award for a work of state significance", previously winning for her 2018 novel Too Much Lip, which also won the Miles Franklin.
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