Melissa Lucashenko didn't want to write a book about First Contact. Lucashenko tells ABC Arts the book is a "First Nations love story about how to try to live a good Aboriginal life as society is being transformed around you". It was praised by prize chair journalist Tony Maniaty as an "ambitious, epic" novel and "a fiercely original exploration of …
The longlist for the $60,000 Stella Prize has been announced at a ceremony at Adelaide Festival as part of Writers' Week. Twelve books have been longlisted for the 2024 prize, including Alexis Wright's "abundant odyssey" Praiseworthy, Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko, and the acclaimed book about chronic illness and friendship, Body Friend by Katherine Brabon. First Nations reading guide Photo shows …