Speech: Helen Garner accepts the OzCo Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature

Wednesday, 6 March 2019 Books+Publishing

Earlier this week, Helen Garner was honoured with the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature at a ceremony in Sydney. The following is her acceptance speech, republished in full. In the late 1950s when I was studying Matriculation French at a school in Geelong, we were taken to...