True Stories: Selected Non-Fiction

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True Stories: Selected Non-Fiction
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First edition
Author Helen Garner
LanguageEnglish
GenreNon-fiction
Publisher Text Publishing
Publication date
1996
Publication place Australia

True Stories: Selected Non-Fiction is a collection of short non-fiction works by Australian writer Helen Garner first published in 1996 by Text Publishing. [1] [2] The short works in the collection start with Garner's immediate notes as a school teacher to her journalist accounts of visiting a morgue and a maternity ward in a hospital. [3] It won the 1997 Nita Kibble Literary Award.

References

  1. "True stories : selected non-fiction / Helen Garner". Trove . National Library of Australia . Retrieved 30 August 2018.
  2. Carey, Patrick (7 November 2018). "Helen Garner, 'surrounded by BS', still telling it like it is on her 75th birthday". Books and Arts - Radio National . Australian Broadcasting Corporation . Retrieved 30 August 2018.
  3. Fiona Wright (7 December 2017). "Stories and True Stories review: The joys of heartbreak and hope with Helen Garner". The Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved 30 August 2018.