Helen Garner: The Season

Hear iconic Australian writer Helen Garner’s reflections on football and the cycles of life in The Season, her first full-length book in a decade. In conversation with David Leser.

Helen Garner 

Helen Garner writes novels, stories, screenplays and works of non-fiction. In 2006 she received the inaugural Melbourne Prize for Literature, and in 2016 she won the prestigious Windham–Campbell Prize for non-fiction and the Western Australian Premier’s Book Award. In 2019 she was honoured with the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature. Her novels include The Children’s Bach, Cosmo Cosmolino and The Spare Room. 

David Leser 

David Leser is a two-time Walkley Award–winning journalist and author of seven books, including his memoir To Begin to Know, shortlisted for the 2015 National Biography Award, and Women, Men and the Whole Damn Thing, about the history of patriarchy and misogyny in the age of #MeToo.  

A former Middle East and Washington correspondent, David is a regular contributor to Good Weekend magazine and a columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.