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.
Books in order of publication:
Novels
Monkey Grip (1977)
Moving Out (1983)
The Children’s Bach (1984)
Cosmo Cosmolino (1992)
The Spare Room (2008)
Short story collections
Honour & Other People’s Children: Two Stories (1980)
Postcards from Surfers (1985)
My Hard Heart: Selected Fictions (1998)
Stories: The Collected Short Fiction (2017)
Screenplays
Monkey Grip (1982, directed and co-written by Ken Cameron)
Two Friends (1986, telemovie, directed by Jane Campion)
The Last Days of Chez Nous (1992, directed by Gillian Armstrong)
Non-fiction
La Mama: History of a Theatre (Liz Jones with Betty Burstall and Helen Garner, 1988)
The First Stone (1995)
True Stories: Selected Non-Fiction (1996)
The Feel of Steel (2001)
Joe Cinque’s Consolation (2004)
Somewhere to Belong: A Blueprint for 21st Century Youth Clubs (authors Helen Garner and Julia Hargreaves) (2009)
This House of Grief – The Story of a Murder Trial (2014)
Regions of Thick-Ribbed Ice (2015)
Everywhere I Look (2016)
True Stories: The Collected Short Non-Fiction (2017)
Autobiographies
Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume I 1978–1987 (2019)
One Day I’ll Remember This: Diaries 1987–1995 (2020)
How To End A Story: Diaries 1995-1998 (2021)
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