Fiona Wright's Small Acts of Disappearance has a big win at the Kibble Award

By Susan Wyndham
Updated July 22 2016 - 1:13am, first published 12:38pm
Fiona Wright, whose essay collection <i>Small Acts of Disappearance</i>, has won the Kibble Award for women's life writing. Photo: Tamara Dean
Fiona Wright, whose essay collection <i>Small Acts of Disappearance</i>, has won the Kibble Award for women's life writing. Photo: Tamara Dean
Lucy Treloar (left) and Fiona Wright, winners of the Kibble Awards for women's life writing, at the State Library of NSW after the awards presentation.  Photo: Edwina Pickles
Lucy Treloar (left) and Fiona Wright, winners of the Kibble Awards for women's life writing, at the State Library of NSW after the awards presentation. Photo: Edwina Pickles
<i>Small Acts of Disappearance</i> describes the struggles of several characters who starve themselves.
<i>Small Acts of Disappearance</i> describes the struggles of several characters who starve themselves.

Sydney poet and essayist Fiona Wright has won the $30,000 Kibble Literary Award for women's life writing. In her book, Small Acts of Disappearance, Wright examines her own anorexia and the significance of hunger in a slender collection of essays that are both intimate and intellectual, frank and filled with poetic observations.

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