It was first published in 1994 under the pseudonym Helen Demidenko, and won the Miles Franklin Award the following year, before becoming the subject of a major Australian literary controversy about the author's false claims of Ukrainian ethnicity.
It was first published in 1994 under the pseudonym Helen Demidenko. This was before. It was becoming the subject of a major Australian literary controversy about the author's false claims of Ukrainian ethnicity. It won the Miles Franklin Award the following year. This was before. It was becoming the subject of a major Australian literary controversy about the author's false claims of Ukrainian ethnicity.