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Melina Marchetta is one of Australia's most successful writers of young-adult fiction and is a best-selling and critically acclaimed author in more than twenty countries and in eighteen languages. In 2009 Marchetta won the prestigious Michael L. Printz Award from the American Library Association for On the Jellicoe Road, and Melina's screenplay for this book is currently set to be made into a major film with an international cast. Her other books include Finnikin of the Rock, Saving Francesca, The Piper's Son (long-listed for the Miles Franklin Award) and The Gorgon in the Gully. Melina Marchetta's first novel Looking for Alibrandi, the much-loved Australian classic, was made into a major motion picture and has sold more than half a million copies in Australia.
