Small Acts of Disappearance: Essays on Hunger offers a deeply personal insight into life-threatening battle with the illness
The acclaimed writer, critic and poet Fiona Wright has won the prestigious Kibble award for Australian women writers, taking $30,000 for Small Acts of Disappearance, a collection of essays about anorexia.
Small Acts of Disappearance: Essays on Hunger is the second book from Wright, 33, who published her first collection of poetry, Knuckled, in 2011. Also shortlisted for this year’s Stella prize and the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, it offers a deeply personal insight into life with anorexia, which began for Wright in high school and became life-threatening over the next 10 years.
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