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Cory Taylor

Novelist and screenwriter

Australia · 1955–2016

Australian novelist and screenwriter, whose Me and Mr Booker won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the Pacific region and whose My Beautiful Enemy was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin. Diagnosed with melanoma in 2005 and told in 2015 that it was no longer treatable, she wrote Dying: A Memoir in a few weeks at the start of 2016. It was published in May; she died in palliative care in Brisbane on 5 July 2016.

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He’s always been the family cook. He’s been feeding me since the day we met. Everything I know about Japanese food I know because of him. So now that’s another pleasure gone, perhaps the greatest. I don’t know how long it takes to die of starvation, or whether it hurts, but I dread it, just as I dread my sons watching me go like that. Because that is what they will remember, their mother reduced to a bag of bones. What it will do to Shin I can’t bear to contemplate.

Recorded Edited extract from Dying: A Memoir, published by Text Publishing, The Guardian, 17 May 2016 source ↗

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