Helen Garner

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Helen Garner (2015)

Helen Garner (born November 7, 1942 in Geelong ) is an Australian writer and screenwriter.

Life

Helen Garner studied English and French at the University of Melbourne and from 1966 worked as a teacher at various high schools in the state of Victoria . In 1968 she married the actor Bill Garner, they divorced in 1971, their daughter is the actress Alice Garner . She was then still married to Jean-Jacques Portail (1980-85) and the writer Murray Bail . Garner was fired from school in 1972 when she gave sex education to thirteen-year-old students , which was not part of the school schedule.

In 1977, Australia's first novel, Monkey Grip, aroused interest in female authors and also ensured that writers like Jessica Anderson and Thea Astley were recognized in the first place. Garner has since written non-fiction books, novels, short stories and essays at various rhythms. She wrote the scripts for three films: Monkey Grip (1982), directed by Ken Cameron; Two Friends (1986) directed by Jane Campion and The Last Days of Chez Nous (1992) directed by Gillian Armstrong . Her short story The Children's Bach was the template for an opera of the same name for the Australian composer Andrew Schultz in 2008 . For her true crime story This house of grief , Garner spent seven years accompanying a murder trial in which a divorced husband was finally convicted for drowning his three sons in a quarry pond after a father's day.

Garner has repeatedly won Australian literary prizes, such as the Walkley Award for Non-Fiction, the Melbourne Prize for Literature, the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction, the Queensland Premier's Award for Fiction and for a crime report published in Time Magazine in 1993 the "Barbara Jefferis Award", twice, in 2005 and 2015, a Ned Kelly Award for non-fiction and in 2016 the " Windham-Campbell Prize for non-fiction ".

Works (selection)

  • Monkey grip . Novel. 1977
  • Honor & Other People's Children: Two Stories . 1980
    • Other people's children: two stories . Translation: Lina Phyllis Falkner, Nora Matocza. Berlin: Berlin-Verlag, 2011
  • The Children's Bach . Novel. Fitzroy, Vic. : McPhee Gribble, 1984
    • The house on Bunker Street . Translation Nora Matocza, Gerhard Falkner. Berlin: Berlin-Verlag, 2010
  • Postcards from Surfers . Short stories. Fitzroy, Vic., Australia: McPhee Gribble, 1985
  • Cosmo Cosmolino . Novel. Ringwood, Vic. : McPhee Gribble, 1992
  • The last days of Chez Nous; &, Two friends . Ringwood, Vic. : McPhee Gribble, 1992
  • The First Stone: some questions about sex and power . London: Bloomsbury, 1995
  • True Stories: Selected Non-Fiction . Melbourne: Text Pub., 1996
  • My Hard Heart: Selected Fictions . Ringwood, Vic. : Viking, 1998
  • The feel of steel . Sydney: Picador, 2001
  • Jo Cinque's Consolation . Sydney: Pan MacMillan, 2004
  • The spare room . New York: Henry Holt, 2009
    • The room . Translation Nora Matocza, Gerhard Falkner. Berlin: Berlin-Verlag, 2009 also spoken as an audio book by Sibylle Kuhne .
  • This house of grief: The Story of a Murder Trial . Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2014
    • Three sons: a murder trial and its story . Translation by Lina Falkner. Berlin: Berlin-Verlag, 2016
  • Everywhere I look . Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2016

literature

  • Kerryn Goldsworthy: Helen Garner . Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1996 (not viewed)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barbara Möller: The children are dead . Review, in: The literary world , October 29, 2016, p. 3
  2. ↑ Helen Garner , at textpublishing
  3. ↑ Gerhard Schulz : So that's how you do it today . Review, in: FAZ , July 16, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Garner, Helen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian writer and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Geelong