Melissa Lucashenko.
Melissa Lucashenko’s novel ‘Too Much Lip’, which won the Miles Franklin Award last night, is headed for screen – having been optioned in May this year by newly-formed production company Cenozoic Pictures.
Lucashenko is a multi-award-winning Goorie writer, a Walkley Award winner for her non-fiction, and a founding member of the prisoner’s human rights group, Sisters Inside. ‘Too Much Lip’ tracks the story of wisecracking Kerry Salter, a Bundjalung woman whose intention to return home for 24 hours to farewell her Pop becomes a life-changing stay as she confronts family, corruption, buried secrets and the possibility of love.
‘Too Much Lip’ was also shortlisted for the Stella Prize, the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, the Nsw Premier’s Literary Awards and the Australian Book Industry Awards.
Filmmakers Veronica Gleeson, Luke Walker and Suzanne Walker founded the Melbourne-based Cenozoic Pictures last year, with an strong emphasis on providing writers with a creatively supportive environment.
Melissa Lucashenko’s novel ‘Too Much Lip’, which won the Miles Franklin Award last night, is headed for screen – having been optioned in May this year by newly-formed production company Cenozoic Pictures.
Lucashenko is a multi-award-winning Goorie writer, a Walkley Award winner for her non-fiction, and a founding member of the prisoner’s human rights group, Sisters Inside. ‘Too Much Lip’ tracks the story of wisecracking Kerry Salter, a Bundjalung woman whose intention to return home for 24 hours to farewell her Pop becomes a life-changing stay as she confronts family, corruption, buried secrets and the possibility of love.
‘Too Much Lip’ was also shortlisted for the Stella Prize, the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, the Nsw Premier’s Literary Awards and the Australian Book Industry Awards.
Filmmakers Veronica Gleeson, Luke Walker and Suzanne Walker founded the Melbourne-based Cenozoic Pictures last year, with an strong emphasis on providing writers with a creatively supportive environment.
- 7/31/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
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