Helen Garner

Alexander Jones (University of Sydney)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 9.1.1: Australian Writing and Culture.
Vol. editors: Susan Kossew (Monash University)

Dates

Born 7 Nov 1942
Activity 1977-ongoing

Places

Born in Australia
Active in Australia

Activities

Primary

Novelist
Story-writer

Resources

Helen Garner was born in 1942; she had the greater part of her school education at The Hermitage, a private girls’ school in Geelong, Victoria; she completed a degree at the University of Melbourne, and worked for some years as a teacher in secondary schools. Her first novel, Monkey Grip, was published in 1977; since then she worked as a writer, producing a number of works of fiction, non-fiction and journalism. Her reputation rests substantially on her four novels and two extended works of non-fiction.

Fiction:

Monkey Grip won a National Book Council Award in 1978, and later became the basis for a feature film. Its particular success, not necessarily still obvious at the remove of 30 …

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Citation: Jones, Alexander. "Helen Garner". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 28 October 2009 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1685, accessed 24 November 2024.]

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