Helen Garner

Helen Garner, born Helen Ford, was born on 7 November 1942 in Geelong. A graduate of the University of Melbourne in English and French, she taught in Victorian high schools from 1966 to 1972; in 1972, the Department of Education dismissed her over a sex education lesson improvised in front of her pupils at Fitzroy High School, which she had described anonymously in the magazine The Digger. She then wrote for that magazine, then for The Age, and turned to court reporting and investigative writing, which earned her the Walkley Award in 1993 and the Windham-Campbell Prize in 2016.

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