Helen Garner Biography

 

Helen Garner was born on 7 November 1942. Helen Garner has earned a place among Australia’s most revered authors. She wrote both fiction and nonfiction, but it was her unflinching honesty that made her famous. She was awarded the first-ever Melbourne Prize for Literature in 2006 and the Windham-Campbell Prize for Nonfiction in 2016. Monkey Grip, The Children’s Bach, Cosmo Cosmolino, and The Spare Room are among her titles.

For a whole new generation of Australians, Monkey Grip is the novel that defines realism. It was with the publication of Monkey Grip that, as Bernadette Brennan describes in her biography A Writing Life: Helen Garner and Her Work, “the complex female experiences of motherhood, sexuality, and desire, within the changing social contexts of the seventies and explode notions of literary decorum” entered the public consciousness.

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