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Rochelle Siemienowicz

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As seen in: Rotten Tomatoes, Pursuit, SBS, Take 5, ArtsHub Australia, GamesHub, ScreenHub, Archer Magazine, Australian Educator, ArtsHub UK
Australian arts, screen & books. Author of FALLEN, a memoir, and DOUBLE HAPPINESS, a novel (Oct 2024). Agent @TheBooksDesk
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Why do we love Helen Garner so much?

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By Rochelle Siemienowicz Verified
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Australian author Helen Garner (who last Tuesday won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction) is so famous in Australia, and so well-regarded that to say you don’t like her has almost become a badge of honour among rebels, which I think is sad. ‘Can’t stand her,’ said one literary critic when I said was writing this article.
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Why do we love Helen Garner so much?

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By Rochelle Siemienowicz Verified
| ArtsHub Australia Verified
Australian author Helen Garner is so famous and well-regarded that to say you don’t like her has almost become a badge of honour among rebels, which I think is sad. ‘Can’t stand her,’ said one literary critic when I said was writing this article. Another friend said, ‘She reminds me of my mother and I don’t need that!’ Others admitted they’d never actually read Garner’s books – or they saw the movie of her first autobiographical novel Monkey Grip (1977) back in the 1980s, and that was enough.
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Familiar Touch review: a powerful portrait of life with dementia

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By Rochelle Siemienowicz Verified
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In Familiar Touch, Ruth (Kathleen Chalfant) is a woman in her 80s with very good taste. As she moves around her sunny kitchen preparing a smoked salmon brunch for two, she carefully arranges the ingredients and tops the dish with fresh dill from one of the pots in her picture window. Her Los Angeles house is all lived-in luxury – but something’s not right. There are odd pauses as she puts the toast in the… dishrack?
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