Melanie Cheng

About

Melanie Cheng is a writer and general practitioner from Melbourne. She is the author of Australia Day, which won the 2018 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction, and Room for a Stranger, which was longlisted for the 2020 Miles Franklin Award. Her non-fiction has been published in the Guardian, the Age, The Weekend Australian and SBS Online. She is The Saturday Paper‘s health columnist.

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Books and Ideas at Montalto

Melanie Cheng

Melanie Cheng, Georgia Moodie

20 Oct

Rough Diamonds: The Award for an Unpublished Manuscript

Toni Jordan, Christian White, Melanie Cheng, Jane Harper

3 Sep

Double Booked Club

Melanie Cheng and Omar Sakr

Khalid Warsame, Omar Sakr, Melanie Cheng

7 Jun

Double Booked Club

Mirandi Riwoe and Arnold Zable

Mirandi Riwoe, Arnold Zable, Melanie Cheng

6 Apr

Fire Flood Plague: Making sense of 2020

Sophie Cunningham, Billy Griffiths, Kate Cole-Adams, Jane Rawson, Gabrielle Chan, Melanie Cheng, Adam Suckling, Kim Scott, Jess Hill

8 Dec

Books and Ideas at Montalto

Alice Pung

Alice Pung, Melanie Cheng

13 Aug

Books and Ideas at Montalto

Jennifer Down at Montalto

Jennifer Down, Melanie Cheng

27 Oct

State of the (Writing) Nation: Jennifer Down

Jennifer Down, Mykaela Saunders, Melanie Cheng, Andy Jackson, Christos Tsiolkas

1 Mar

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