Alice Moldovan

4 days ago | abc.net.au | Nicola Harrison |Alice Moldovan |Richard Fidler

Nathan Dunne was swimming in Hampstead Heath in London in the middle of winter in 2008 when a psychological catastrophe struck him. Nathan felt his sense of self split in two, and an unbearable pain overtook him. He was driven to attempt suicide, and endured years of misdiagnoses from doctors and medications that didn't work. Nathan didn't have the words to describe the confusion, pain and splitting of self he was experiencing. For years, water was the symbol of his undoing.

2 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Nicola Harrison |Alice Moldovan |Sarah Kanowski

Claire Keegan is an Irish novelist whose books are loved by readers around the world. Her works Small Things Like These and Foster have both been made into movies. Her stories often take place in the landscape where she grew up — the farms and small towns of Wexford in Southeast Ireland. Claire was the youngest of six children, and when she was born their farmhouse had no running water and few books. Instead, Claire fell in love with horses.

2 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Nicola Harrison |Alice Moldovan |Sarah Kanowski

Author Rosalie Ham grew up in country NSW in a town three streets wide and three streets long. During a mouse plague, the rodents were so prolific that their droppings would appear at the bottom of the cereal packet, and the town's children — unsupervised — would chop the mice up with a downpipe in the farmyard shed. When Rosalie was a child, her mum received a devastating diagnosis, and moved out of the family home to find herself before it was too late.

3 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Carmel Rooney |Alice Moldovan |Sarah Kanowski

Warren Ward's patients are often critically ill with diseases like anorexia. Warren says asking someone with anorexia to eat is like asking an arachnophobe to put their hand in a jar full of spiders. As a psychiatrist, Warren uses psychotherapy to help his patients. He encourages those with an eating disorder to approach their mental illness as one part of their whole self.

4 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Carmel Rooney |Alice Moldovan |Sarah Kanowski

Winnie Dunn was born into a big Tongan family in Western Sydney but she felt conflicted about her heritage growing up. While at high school the Chris Lilley character, 'Jonah from Tonga’, became a national joke and her first trip to Tonga as a teenager was a disaster. But over time Winnie’s understanding of what it means to be Tongan evolved, and at the age of 28, she became the first Tongan Australian to have a novel published.