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
elen Garner was born in Geelong, Australia, in 1942. She worked as a teacher and as a journalist before her first novel,, came out in 1977. Garner has since published novels, stories, screenplays and several volumes of her diaries, but she may be best known for her acclaimed nonfiction, which includes, which tells the story of Robert Farquharson, on trial for the murder of his three sons. In 2016, she was awarded the Windham-Campbell literature prize for nonfiction.
I guess it would be annoying if I’d had hopes, in all those years, that I’d ever get published outside Australia. But strangely, I never did. I’m aware this sounds like “little me” talk. But in Australia, in my generation and among those who were slightly older like Germaine , people would get their books published in London first, and then come back to us. You had to get out of here! That was everybody’s aim, because everything important happened somewhere else.
Yes. This bloke said: she has just published her diary. I felt snarky about it, but I ignored it. It was much worse when I was attacked later for. If I published something like that now, I’d be cancelled. People were mad with rage. They said I’d set feminism back 20 years . I was flabbergasted by those attacks, and the way they went on and on. People would give me death stares in the street.
That was my third husband , though he would never actually have said it. He had a very stern hierarchy of forms, and the novel was right at the top. He’d never written for money; he’d never been a journalist. But all my writing life, I’ve made a living as a freelance, and I love it with a passion because it gives you an entree into the lives of strangers. I don’t think he thought I was as good as he was, and I think that I unconsciously shifted to where we wouldn’t be rivals.
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