Helen Garner was born in Geelong in 1942. She worked as a high school teacher, then as a freelance journalist. Since 1977 she has published novels, stories, screenplays and works of non-fiction. She is the winner of the 2006 inaugural Melbourne Prize for Literature, the 2016 Windham-Campbell Literature Prize for Non-fiction, the 2019 Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature and the 2023 Australian Society of Authors Medal. Her books include This House of Grief, Monkey Grip and The Children's Bach.
Helen Garner visita un depósito de cadáveres y se va de crucero en un barco ruso; la despiden de un colegio por hablar de sexo con sus alumnos; asiste a un parto y a una boda; escribe sobre cumplir los cincuenta, sobre su familia y sobre el revuelo causado por uno de sus libros....
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