Helen Garner

Helen Garner (born 7 November 1942) is an Australian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. Garners first novel, Monkey Grip, was published in 1977, and immediately established her as an original voice on the Australian literary scene. She is known for incorporating and adapting her personal experiences in her fiction, something that has brought her widespread attention, particularly with her novels, Monkey Grip and The Spare Room.Throughout her career, Garner has written both fiction and non-fiction. She attracted controversy with her book The First Stone about a sexual harassment scandal in a university college. She has also written for film and theatre, and has consistently won awards for her work including the Walkley Award for a 1993 Time Magazine report. Two of her works have been adapted into feature films: her debut novel Monkey Grip and her true crime book Joe Cinques Consolation (2004) – the former released in 1982 and the latter in 2016.Garners works have covered a broad range of themes and subject matter. She has twice wrote true-crime novels: first with Joe Cinques Consolation, a report about the court proceedings of a young man who died at the hands of his girlfriend and again in 2014, with This House of Grief.<Ref>

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