Helen Hodgman
Helen Hodgman | |
|---|---|
| Born | 27 April 1945 Aberdeen, Scotland |
| Died | 6 June 2022 (aged 77) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Notable awards | 1989 Christina Stead Fiction Prize, winner |
Helen Hodgman (27 April 1945 – 6 June 2022)[1][2] was an Australian novelist, who was born in Aberdeen, Scotland and migrated to Australia with her family in 1958.[3]
She won the 1978 Somerset Maugham Award for her novel Jack and Jill.[4] She also won the 1989 Christina Stead Fiction Prize for the novel Broken Words.[5]
Career
[edit | edit source]On publication of her first novel, British critic Auberon Waugh, referred to her as "a born writer with a style and an elan which is all her own".[6]
In 1983 Hodgman was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, which, by 2001 had deprived her of the ability to write.[6] She died in 2022 aged 77 in Sydney.[2]
Works
[edit | edit source]Novels
[edit | edit source]- Blue Skies, London: Duckworth, 1976 Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).; translated into German: Gleichbleibend schön (2012) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
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Screenplay
[edit | edit source]- The Right Hand Man, for the 1987 film directed by Di Drew and starring Rupert Everett, Hugo Weaving and Arthur Dignam, based on the 1977 novel of the same name by K. M. Peyton.[7]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ "Helen Hodgman", austcrimefiction.org
- ^ a b "Vale Helen Hodgman" by David Winter, Text Publishing, 15 June 2022
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