The Mind Book of the Year Award celebrates writing that enriches people’s understanding of mental health issues. It is presented to a book, either fiction or non-fiction, which deals with the experience of emotional or mental distress.
The 2011 winner is Bobby Baker’s Diary Drawings: Mental Illness and Me.
About the book:
Well-acquainted with using unconventional methods to express her ideas, performance artist Bobby Baker’s works have included making life-size edible cake-versions of her family, dancing with meringue ladies and driving around London strapped to the back of a truck yelling at passers by through a megaphone to “pull yourself together”.
Diary Drawings is no less brilliantly inventive. A collection of 158 drawings Baker created between 1997 and 2008, the diary provides us with an astonishing insight into her struggle to overcome mental and physical ill-health.
