Edenglassie Wins 2024 Roderick Literary Award | Mirage News
Top Stories Tamfitronics Melissa Lucashenko's mesmerising colonial Queensland epic Edenglassie has taken out the Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award for 2024, along with the record $50,000 prize.This year's prize, organised by the James Cook University-based Foundation for Australian Literary Studies (FALS), had a record 235 entries but it was Lucashenko's extraordinary novel on Queensland's colonial past and a reimagined Australian future that emerged from a shortlist of exceptional quality.A delighted Lucashenko accepted the award and the accompanying H.T. Priestley Memorial Medal at a ceremony at the JCU's Bebegu Yumba Campus on Monday night, with the acclaimed First Nations writer revealing her links to the Indigenous people of North Queensland made her win even more special."I'm absolutely thrilled and honoured to receive the Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award," she said."Though I hail from...
