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Tanja Luckins

Tanja Luckins is a Melbourne historian and author who specialises in Australian Cultural History. In addition to The Games of Memory: Australian People’s Experiences and Memories of Loss and The Great War (2004), she has published Go! Melbourne in the Sixties (2005) and Dining on Turtles: Food, Feasts and Drinking in History (2007). Her current research project is an Australian Research Council funded History of Cosmopolitanism in Australia, 1850-2000.

Awards

Highly Commended, Fellowship of Australian Writers / National Literary Awards, 2004
Co-winner, Inaugural Australian Historical Association’s Serle Award for Best Post-graduate Thesis in Australian History, 2002

Books available from Fremantle Press

From the Catalogue

Piercing the Ground

by Christine Watson

Wilderness Society Award

Congratulations to Sally Morgan whose book The Last Dance won the Wilderness Society’s 2013 Environment Award for Children’s Literature. Meg McKinlay and Kyle Hughes-Odgers were also shortlisted in the same category for Ten Tiny Things