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Helen Garner

March 2024

  • Helen Garner<br>Helen Garner author portrait

    Books interview
    Helen Garner: ‘People would give me death stares in the street’

    The novelist and nonfiction writer on her love of courtroom drama, the trials of cancel culture and why she wouldn’t have been a good psychoanalyst

February 2023

  • Australian author Helen Garner, whose book of diary extracts, Yellow Notebook, is out November 2019.

    What makes me happy now
    Helen Garner on happiness: ‘It’s taken me 80 years to figure out it’s not a tranquil, sunlit realm’

    In a series of short essays, writers consider what happiness means to them now, after the reckoning of the past few years

January 2023

  • Betty Can Jump at the Pram Factory

    Betty Can Jump at the Pram Factory: the radical 1970s play that built a scene – and changed Australia

    Conceived at Helen Garner’s Fitzroy share house during the 70s, this women’s show upended the establishment – and reminds us why arts funding matters

May 2022

  • The Schatzalp, the luxury sanatorium near Davos that appears in The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 novels about neighbours

    From commune-dwellers to lodgers in miniature, the people we live alongside make intriguing subjects for fiction

November 2020

  • Australian author Helen Garner

    Full Story
    'Jesus, what an idiot I was!' Helen Garner on revisiting her past to publish her diaries

    The Australian author talks about the difficulties of publishing her diaries, and her fascination with systems of life and death
  • Australian author Helen Garner, whose book of diary extracts, One Day I’ll Remember This, is out November 2020.

    Guardian Australia's book club
    Helen Garner: 'Feminism came like a bombshell into my life'

    Appearing at Guardian Australia’s Zoom book club, the author reflected on mortality, kindness and her second volume of diaries, One Day I’ll Remember This
  • Michael Williams and Helen Garner

    Guardian Australia's book club
    Guardian Australia book club: join Helen Garner to talk about writing, life, and releasing her diaries

    Garner’s latest collection tracks a tumultuous time, beginning with a love affair and ending in controversy. Join her in a discussion

October 2020

  • ‘Being in love makes me selfish and mean, puts blinkers on me. I get tunnel vision. I want, I want, I want.’

    Helen Garner: ‘Is there hope for women and men?’

    In this extract from her 1987 diary, Helen Garner chronicles a tumultuous time in her life, including the beginning of an all-consuming affair

August 2020

  • Australian author Helen Garner

    Is a woman my age allowed to be happy when the world is going to hell in a handbasket?

    Helen Garner
    Helen Garner was once the queen of paying attention. Now in her 70s, she writes, the tools that she relied on are beginning to wear out

May 2020

  • Helen Garner

    Helen Garner: 'I may be an old woman, but I'm not done for yet'

    In this extract from her Griffith Review essay the author wrestles with ageing and the deep need to keep writing

November 2019

  • Helen Garner's Yellow Notebook

    The unmissables
    Sensory fragments and self-doubt: drawing back the curtain on Helen Garner's mind

    It’s a strange comfort to discover in Yellow Notebook even a writer of Garner’s force has suffered from – and survived – a lack of confidence

October 2019

  • Helen Garner

    The unmissables
    My early diaries filled me with so much shame I burned them. I’m publishing the rest

    Revisiting a diary forces you to confront ‘ugly, foolish behaviour’, writes Helen Garner. Pulling together a book of extracts was instructive – but not easy

September 2019

  • Books of the century so far

    Best culture of the 21st century
    The 100 best books of the 21st century

    Dazzling debut novels, searing polemics, the history of humanity and trailblazing memoirs ... Read our pick of the best books since 2000

June 2019

  • JUNE 2019_LONDON; Sian Cain is the Guardian’s books site editor. (Photography by Graeme Robertson)

    Inside the Guardian
    Guardian Books: 'You can tell a lot about a country by how it treats its libraries'

    The books site editor on the challenges facing publishers, and who she would invite to her dream dinner party

October 2018

  • Charlotte Wood

    Helen Garner's Monkey Grip makes me examine who I am

    Charlotte Wood
    In a foreword to the book’s re-release, Charlotte Wood reflects on the innocence and molten anger that so divided critics

July 2018

  • Paul Keating, Helen Garner, Tim Winton, Deng Adut

    Tim Winton, Helen Garner, Paul Keating, Deng Adut: the stories behind the year's best biographies

    Tim Winton, Joan Healy, Bernadette Brennan , Deng Thiak Adut, Judith Brett, Troy Bramston
    Six authors nominated for the National Biography awards reveal what most surprised them about their subjects

May 2018

  • Journalist Masha Gessen speaking at Sydney Writers Festival, May 2018

    From 'himpathy' to power bottoms: six things we learned at Sydney writers' festival

    Masha Gessen, Helen Garner, Emma Glass and more shared words of wisdom on #MeToo, power play, science and the ‘language of hatred’

February 2018

  • Fish and greens Kate Young

    The Little Library Café
    Novel recipes: fish and greens from Helen Garner's Postcards from Surfers

  • Composite of Australian authors Helen Garner and Kim Scott

    Perth festival: Helen Garner and Kim Scott share their literary wisdom

January 2018

  • Gay Alcorn

    Helen Garner’s The First Stone is outdated. But her questions about sexual harassment aren’t

    Gay Alcorn
    Re-visiting The First Stone in the time of #metoo is to be irritated all over again. But Garner’s uncomfortable truths remain prescient
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