Helen Garner is one of Australian literature’s foremost writers. Her trajectory in letters is outlined in her published diaries, a must-read for any writing enthusiast. Novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, she was courageous in the face of controversy over her book The First Stone about a sexual harassment scandal in a university college. 

Helen has won a NSW Premier’s Award, the Windham-Campbell Prize for non-fiction, the 2006 Inaugural Melbourne Prize for Fiction and the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature. Her most recent book, published in 2024, is The Season.