Helen Garner
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Helen Garner is an Australian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. Garner's first novel, Monkey Grip, published in 1977, immediately established her as an original voice on the Australian literary scene - it is now widely considered a classic.
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That,' I said, 'would be a blessing. There are so many things I'd like to forget I hardly know what would be left standing, if I ever got started.
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It's rather like a Poe story, isn't it,' said Patrick luxuriously, unfocusing his eyes.
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Ideas came swarming through her, and like many people who labour in the obsession of solitude, she lacked the detachment to challenge them.
Page 57, describing Maxine.
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Peter CareyAlso won Banjo Award for Fiction
David MaloufAlso won Christina Stead Prize for Fiction
Oodgeroo NoonuccalAlso won Victorian Honour Roll of Women
Stella YoungAlso won Victorian Honour Roll of Women
Edmund de WaalAlso won Windham-Campbell Literature Prizes
Kate GrenvilleAlso won Christina Stead Prize for FictionAbout this person
Helen Garner is an Australian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. Garner's first novel, Monkey Grip, published in 1977, immediately established her as an original voice on the Australian literary scene - it is now widely considered a classic. She has a reputation 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 (2008).
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