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Helen Garner

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About

Helen Garner writes novels, stories, screenplays and works of non-fiction. In 2006 she received the inaugural Melbourne Prize for Literature, and in 2016 she won the prestigious Windham–Campbell Literature Prize for non-fiction and the Western Australian Premier’s Book Award. In 2019 she was honoured with the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature. Her books include Monkey GripThe Children’s BachCosmo CosmolinoThe Spare RoomThe First StoneThis House of Grief, Everywhere I Look, Yellow Notebook and One Day I’ll Remember This.

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