Lara Fergus Lara Fergus i(A36385 works by)
Gender: Female
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Lara Fergus grew up in the western suburbs of Sydney and gave up a science degree to become a contemporary dancer. She spent seven years living overseas, mostly in France. In that time she completed degrees in writing, women’s studies and international law, and worked with various advocacy organisations, including for newly arrived immigrant and refugee women. She has worked as a researcher and writer on human rights—particularly violence against women—for over a decade, with organisations such as Amnesty International, White Ribbon, VicHealth and the United Nations. She has worked for the Victorian Government on policy to prevent violence against women.

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y separately published work icon My Sister Chaos North Melbourne : Spinifex Press , 2010 Z1728679 2010 single work novel

'You will not elude me. I will measure your every dimension, I will trace your smallest lines. I will undo you from the inside. You will feel it like waves running across your floorboards, you will feel it like water rising through your walls, you will feel it like a sudden disorientation, you will wonder what happened to your foundations.

An obsessive-compulsive cartographer trapped in the mapping of her own house. A painter turned codebreaker trying to find the lover she lost in the war. Two sisters on a collision course.

In My Sister Chaos two sisters escape an unnamed war-torn country into separate lives of exile. The cartographer is obsessed with keeping the world in order, but finds it unraveling under her own demands. Her sister, an artist, arrives unexpectedly. Her very presence is a sign of chaos for the cartographer. But in spite of this, the sister has a firm grip on the real world, and a greater connection to the past.

Chaos and order in tension provide the scaffolding for this compelling work of fiction. Presented within a world of obsession and trauma it asks whether any of us is immune to the forces of destruction.' (From the publisher's website.)
2011 shortlisted Kibble Literary Awards — Nita May Dobbie Award
Weighted Flesh 1997 single work short story
— Appears in: Redoubt , no. 24 1997; (p. 37-41)
1996 finalist University of Canberra National Short Story Competition — Open Section
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