Helen Garner
Autor/a de The Spare Room
Sobre l'autor
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 mostra'n més 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) mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: 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
Obres de Helen Garner
Silent Death 1 exemplars
Bush Studies: Text Classics 1 exemplars
Honour & Other People’s Children: Text Classics 1 exemplars
The New Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1950 1 exemplars
The Last Days of Chez Nous [1992 film] — Screenwriter — 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Lost Classics: Writers on Books Loved and Lost, Overlooked, Under-read, Unavailable, Stolen, Extinct, or Otherwise Out… (2000) — Col·laborador — 300 exemplars
In Another Part of the Forest: An Anthology of Gay Short Fiction (1994) — Col·laborador — 175 exemplars
Australian Literature: An Anthology of Writing from the Land Down Under (1993) — Col·laborador — 26 exemplars
Goodbye to Romance: Stories by New Zealand and Australian Women Writers, 1930-1988 (1989) — Col·laborador — 10 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Garner, Helen
- Data de naixement
- 1942-11-07
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- Australia
- Lloc de naixement
- Geelong, Victoria, Australia
- Llocs de residència
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Educació
- University of Melbourne (BA - English and French)
- Professions
- screenwriter
journalist
teacher (high school)
novelist
short-story writer - Relacions
- Garner, Alice (daughter)
- Premis i honors
- Windham–Campbell Literature Prize (2016)
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
A Novel Cure (2)
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 35
- També de
- 17
- Membres
- 4,086
- Popularitat
- #6,158
- Valoració
- 3.8
- Ressenyes
- 184
- ISBN
- 224
- Llengües
- 11
- Preferit
- 17
Dexter and Athena Fox are a fairly ordinary couple, Dexter gregarious and optimistic, Athena a down-to-earth almost grim housewife and mother. An old friend of Dexter’s, the glamorous, independent Elizabeth (Morty) and her teenage sister Vicki enter their lives and the family dynamic shifts. The story presents a fairly nihilistic, desolate view of suburban life that investigates the selfishness and brutality of the characters. The hardest thing to read was Athena’s feelings towards their disabled, possibly autistic son, Billy, who she views as a lost cause with 'no one in there' and dreams of throwing under a bus.
A well-written but not overly cheery story that I’m sure will spark some great Book Club chats. 3.5 stars.… (més)