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Helen Garner (née Ford, born 7 November 1942) is an Australian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. Garner's first novel, Monkey Grip, published in 1977, immediately established her as an original voice on the Australian literary scene—it is now widely considered a classic.
Mar 7, 2024 · But judging by the recent surge of interest in her funny, elegant novels and indelible works of non-fiction, the smart money might be on another author entirely: Helen Garner.
Helen Garner was born in Geelong in 1942. She has published many works of fiction including Monkey Grip, Cosmo Cosmolino and The Children's Bach. Her fiction has won numerous awards. She is also one of Australia's most respected non-fiction writers, and received a Walkley Award for journalism in 1993.
Oct 12, 2023 · Helen Garner, 80, embraces the many-sidedness of life. Her books crackle with curiosity and unpredictability — they win big prizes, kickstart controversies and say things other people rarely dare.
Oct 26, 2023 · The Startling Candor of Helen Garner. One of Australia’s most beloved writers, Garner—who has published novels, nonfiction, and three volumes of diaries—is finally catching on in the U.S. By...
Oct 29, 2021 · Helen Garner, pictured in 1996, offers an extraordinary portrait of the breakdown of a marriage in the third volume of her diaries. Cathryn Tremain. Here she is, brooding on the wrongs done to her by her novelist husband: “I think he’s lying to me.
A prodigious blurber, our breaker of horses, and a poet in plain prose; there are myriad ways Helen Garner is described by the Australian writers and others on whom she has had a profound influence. This week, the author who’s “happy to say she often falls short of her own expectations” turned 80.
Helen Garner writes novels, stories, screenplays and works of non-fiction. In 2006 she received the inaugural Melbourne Prize for Literature, and in 2016 she won the prestigious Windham–Campbell Literature Prize for non-fiction and the Western Australian Premier’s Book Award.
Oct 10, 2023 · A lightning rod in Australia, author Helen Garner is 80 and ready for your acclaim. Helen Garner’s works — fiction and nonfiction — rethink good and evil and what’s worth noticing. Pantheon is...
Oct 19, 2023 · Helen Garner Keeps ‘Paradise Lost’ and a Bible Close at Hand. “You never know when you might need to read something coolheaded about death,” says the author of “The Children’s Bach” and...
