Helen Garner

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born

January 01, 1942 in Geelong, Australia

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About this author

Helen Garner was born in Geelong in 1942. She has published many works of fiction including Monkey Grip, Cosmo Cosmolino and The Children's Bach. Her fiction has won numerous awards. She is also one of Australia's most respected non-fiction writers, and received a Walkley Award for journalism in 1993.

Her most recent books are The First Stone, True Stories, My Hard Heart, The Feel of Stone and Joe Cinque's Consolation. In 2006 she won the Melbourne Prize for Literature. She lives in Melbourne.

Praise for Helen Garner's work

'Helen Garner is an extraordinarily good writer. There is not a paragraph, let alone a page, where she does not compel your attention.'
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Books by Helen Garner

Average rating: 3.63 · 2,239 ratings · 370 reviews · 18 distinct works

	The Spare Room 3.54 avg rating — 932 ratings — published 2008 — 26 editions	My rating:
	Joe Cinque's Consolation, A True Story of Death, Grief and the Law 3.91 avg rating — 397 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Monkey Grip 3.65 avg rating — 352 ratings — published 1977 — 9 editions	My rating:
	The First Stone 3.47 avg rating — 204 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Children's Bach 3.48 avg rating — 112 ratings — published 1986 — 8 editions	My rating:
	True Stories: Selected Non Fiction 4.15 avg rating — 46 ratings	My rating:
	Postcards from Surfers 3.54 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 1986 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Feel Of Steel 3.82 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	Cosmo Cosmolino 3.21 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 1992 — 5 editions	My rating:
	My Hard Heart: Selected Fiction 4.00 avg rating — 17 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Helen Garner

“Death will not be denied. To try is grandiose. It drives madness into the soul. It leaches out virtue. It injects poison into friendship, and makes a mockery of love.”
― Helen Garner, The Spare Room

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“I thought I could hear movement in the kitchen, perhaps a voice murmuring, but it was a matter of urgency that I should get to sleep before two, the hour at which the drought, the refugee camps, the dying planet and all the faults and meannesses of my character would arrive to haunt me.”
― Helen Garner, The Spare Room

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