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Madelaine Lucas Madelaine Lucas i(A142829 works by)
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Madelaine Lucas completed a degree in Writing and Cultural Studies from UTS in 2012.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2014 shortlisted Josephine Ulrick Literature Prize For the then-unpublished story 'Lacuna'.
2012 highly commended Hachette Australia Prize for Young Writers Poetry Prize for Memory is Tidal

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Thirst for Salt Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2023 25666861 2023 single work novel

'A compelling and unforgettable debut novel by an acclaimed young Australian writer—a mesmerising story of desire and its complexities and a powerful reckoning with memory, loss and longing.

' It's hard to remember now that I was once that girl, lying in the sand in my red swimsuit and swimming late into the day. Sharkbait, he called me.

'She first sees him in the water: a local man almost twenty years her senior. Adrift in the summer after finishing college, a young woman is on holiday with her mother in an isolated Australian coastal town. Finding herself pulled to Jude, the man in the water, she begins losing herself in the simple, seductive rhythms of his everyday life.

'As their relationship deepens, life at Sailors Beach offers her the stability she has been craving as the daughter of two drifters—a loving but impulsive mother and an itinerant father. But when she witnesses something she doesn't fully understand, she finds herself questioning everything—about Jude, about herself, about the life she has and the one she wants.

'Thirst for Salt reveals with stunning, sensual immediacy the way the past can hold us in its thrall, shaping who we are and what we love.' (Publication summary)

2024 shortlisted MUD Literary Prize
Ruins 2018 single work short story
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 403 2018; (p. 44-48)
2018 winner ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize
Dog Story 2014 single work short story
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 217 2014; (p. p24-29)
2014 winner The Overland Victoria University Short Story Prize for New and Emerging Writers
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