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Helen Hodgman

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Helen Hodgman (27 April 1945 – 6 June 2022)[1][2] was an Australian novelist.[3] She won the 1978 Somerset Maugham Award for her novel Jack and Jill. She also won the 1989 Christina Stead Fiction Prize for the novel Broken Words.

Career

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Hodgman was born in Aberdeen, Scotland. 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".[4]

In 1983 Hodgman was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, which, by 2001 had deprived her of the ability to write.[4] She died in 2022 aged 77 in Sydney.[2]

Works

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Novels

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  • Blue Skies, London: Duckworth, 1976 ISBN 0715611771; translated into German: Gleichbleibend schön (2012) ISBN 978-3-8135-0472-9
  • Jack and Jill, London: Duckworth, 1978 ISBN 0715613049; translated into German: Jack & Jill (2015) ISBN 978-3-641-12422-9
  • Broken Words, Ringwood, Victoria: Penguin, 1988 ISBN 0140102345; US edition: Ducks, Harmony, 1989 ISBN 978-0517573976
  • Waiting for Matindi, St Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 1998 ISBN 1864488093
  • Passing Remarks, Sydney: Anchor Books, 1996 ISBN 0868246778
  • The Bad Policeman, Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 2001 ISBN 1865084352

Screenplay

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References

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  1. ^ "Helen Hodgman", austcrimefiction.org
  2. ^ a b "Vale Helen Hodgman" by David Winter, Text Publishing, 15 June 2022
  3. ^ "Helen Hodgman". AustLit.
  4. ^ a b Hodgman, Helen (26 August 2011). "Parkinson's takes everything away". The Sydney Morning Herald (in interview). Retrieved 19 December 2018.
  5. ^ Goodman, Walter (2 October 1987). "Film: Rupert Everett in The Right Hand Man". The New York Times. Retrieved 19 December 2018.