Helen Garner
Auteur de The Spare Room
A propos de l'auteur
Helen Garner was born on November 7, 1942 in Geelong, Australia. She received a bachelor's degree with majors in English and French from the University of Melbourne. Throughout her career, she has written both fiction and non-fiction. Her first novel, Monkey Grip, was published in 1977. Her afficher plus non-fiction books include The First Stone, Joe Cinque's Consolation, The Feel of Steel, True Stories and Everywhere I Look. She has also written for film and theatre. She has won numerous awards for her work including Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, the Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction for The Spare Room, For the This House of Grief, she won the Melbourne Prize for Literature, the Barbara Jefferis Award, and the Ned Kelly Award in 2015, and in 2016, the WA Premier's Book Award for nonfiction. She was one of three winners of the 2016 Windham-Campbell Prize for nonfiction. Everywhere I Look won the 2017 Indie Book Award for Nonfiction. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Crédit image: Helen Garner at Adelaide Writer's Week By Michael Coghlan - https://www.flickr.com/photos/mikecogh/16642539190/, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=62681310
Œuvres de Helen Garner
Silent Death 1 exemplaire
Bush Studies: Text Classics 1 exemplaire
Honour & Other People’s Children: Text Classics 1 exemplaire
The New Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1950 1 exemplaire
The Last Days of Chez Nous [1992 film] — Screenwriter — 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Lost Classics: Writers on Books Loved and Lost, Overlooked, Under-read, Unavailable, Stolen, Extinct, or Otherwise Out… (2000) — Contributeur — 302 exemplaires
In Another Part of the Forest: An Anthology of Gay Short Fiction (1994) — Contributeur — 178 exemplaires
Australian Literature: An Anthology of Writing from the Land Down Under (1993) — Contributeur — 27 exemplaires
Goodbye to Romance: Stories by New Zealand and Australian Women Writers, 1930-1988 (1989) — Contributeur — 10 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Garner, Helen
- Date de naissance
- 1942-11-07
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- Australia
- Lieu de naissance
- Geelong, Victoria, Australia
- Lieux de résidence
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Études
- University of Melbourne (BA - English and French)
- Professions
- screenwriter
journalist
teacher (high school)
novelist
short-story writer - Relations
- Garner, Alice (daughter)
- Prix et distinctions
- Windham–Campbell Literature Prize (2016)
Membres
Critiques
This House of Grief par Helen Garner
[b:This House of Grief|22814793|This House of Grief|Helen Garner|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1414003135l/22814793._SY75_.jpg|42364536] is not my standard fare, a grim courtroom drama featuring the trial of a father grieving his impending divorce who drove his car with his three sons into a dam and all drowned but the dad. Did he really have a coughing fit rendering him unconscious or was it an act of revenge? The story is spellbinding presenting insight into courtroom machinations, trauma and memory and the author is [a:Helen Garner|332165|Helen Garner|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1332565089p2/332165.jpg], my new favorite writer. If you don't want to read about this event, read her diaries and novels.… (plus d'informations)
My new favorite author is [a:Helen Garner|332165|Helen Garner|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1332565089p2/332165.jpg]. [b:The Children's Bach|83817408|The Children's Bach|Helen Garner|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1684815445l/83817408._SY75_.jpg|2810409] is an antipodean (a chance to use that word!) domestic novel of parents and children, friends and lovers, siblings and spouses, beautifully written, loosely structured, not long but an honest examination of the social freedoms of the eighties with musical references. Effort is required to keep track of the eight major characters. It's a good companion read to [b:The Spare Room|3014272|The Spare Room|Helen Garner|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1347763965l/3014272._SY75_.jpg|3044813] which covers friendship and concerns about mortality at a later stage in life.… (plus d'informations)
Only just discovered this Australian essayist, film critic and novelist (and who knows what other -ist) but I immediately ordered 3 copies as gifts just for "The Insults of Age." Best described by Garner herself: "Really, it is astonishing how much shit a woman will cop in the interests of civic and domestic order." She also writes of Antipodean authors I'd forgotten such as Jolley, Winton, Janet Malcolm, plus a piece on Russell Crowe. She discusses with insight and a magnetic offhandedness ballet, death, dogs, abortion, mothers, grandkids, an ogre teacher, houses, and criminal trials. A treasure.… (plus d'informations)
I started with [a:Helen Garner|332165|Helen Garner|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1332565089p2/332165.jpg] [b:Everywhere I Look|28818628|Everywhere I Look|Helen Garner|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1455172355l/28818628._SY75_.jpg|49036034] and read Claire Fuller's review which is hard to top. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3253836375?book_show_action=false&from... I was also reminded of the plot of the [a:Sigrid Nunez|6633|Sigrid Nunez|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1529285691p2/6633.jpg] [b:What Are You Going Through|51152434|What Are You Going Through|Sigrid Nunez|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1585361945l/51152434._SY75_.jpg|74855144] about friendships under strain. Engrossing story and a refreshing Australian setting.… (plus d'informations)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 35
- Aussi par
- 17
- Membres
- 4,104
- Popularité
- #6,131
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 190
- ISBN
- 224
- Langues
- 11
- Favoris
- 17
