Lech Blaine

Lech Blaine is an Australian award-winning writer. His second book, Australian Gospel, published in 2024, was awarded The Age Book of the Year for Non-Fiction. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed Car Crash: A Memoir, which was shortlisted for the National Biography Award and two categories at the Queensland Literary Awards. In October 2022, Car Crash was published in the United States and the United Kingdom by Greystone Books. Lech is also the author of two Quarterly Essays: Top Blokes and Bad Cop. He was an inaugural recipient of a Griffith Review Queensland Writers Fellowship, won the Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Award in 2017, and received the Brisbane Lord Mayor’s Emerging Artist Fellowship in 2019. Most recently, he was the 2023 Charles Perkins Centre Writer in Residence.

Lech Blaine adalah penulis asal Australia peraih berbagai penghargaan. Buku keduanya yang berjudul Australian Gospel, yang terbit pada tahun 2024, memenangkan penghargaan The Age Book of the Year untuk kategori nonfiksi. Ia juga merupakan penulis Car Crash: A Memoir, sebuah karya yang dipuji para kritikus dan masuk dalam daftar pendek National Biography Award serta dua kategori di Queensland Literary Awards. Pada Oktober 2022, Car Crash diterbitkan di Amerika Serikat dan Inggris oleh Greystone Books. Lech juga menulis dua Quarterly Essay berjudul Top Blokes dan Bad Cop. Ia merupakan penerima pertama Griffith Review Queensland Writers Fellowship, memenangkan Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Award pada tahun 2017, serta menerima Brisbane Lord Mayor’s Emerging Artist Fellowship pada tahun 2019. Terakhir, ia terpilih sebagai Writer in Residence di Charles Perkins Centre pada tahun 2023.