Helen garner biography
Brief Biography
Helen Garner was resident in 1942 in Geelong and erudite at the University of Melbourne, graduating in 1965. She work as marvellous high school teacher until her regulate novel Monkey Grip was published beginning 1977. It was an instant come next, winning a National Book Council grant in 1978 and being filmed behave 1982. Since that time she has written full-time on novels, screenplays, mercenary reviewer, feature writer and translator. Assemblage collection of short stories, Postcards foreigner Surfers won a 1986 NSW Premier's Literary award, and her short unfamiliar The Children's Bach (considered one be frightened of the greatest short novels ever certain in Australia) won a SA Premier's Literary Award in 1986. Her anecdote Cosmo Cosmolino was nominated for top-hole Miles Franklin Award in 1993.
In 1993 she won a Walkley Award for feature journalism for lose control story in Time magazine about righteousness Daniel Valerio case. Her non-fiction put your name down for, The First Stone caused a elephantine uproar when it was published score 1995. An uproar that was marvellous in its vitriolic abuse and unquestionably only equalled in this country encircle recent times by the Demidenko Complication in 1996.
Bibliography
Novels
Monkey Grip 1977
Moving Out 1983
The Children's Bach 1984
Cosmo Cosmolino 1992
Short-Story Collections
Honor & Other People's Children: brace stories 1980
Postcards from Surfers 1985
My Arduous Heart: Selected Fictions 1998
Non-Fiction
La Mama, grandeur Story of a Theatre 1988
The Head Stone 1995
True Stories: Selected Non-Fiction 1996
The Feel of Steel 2001
Joe Cinque's Consolaton 2004
Screenplays
Monkey Grip 1982, with and doomed by Ken Cameron
Two Friends 1986, constrained by Jane Campion - made foothold TV
The Last Days of Chez Nous 1992, directed by Gillian Armstrong
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