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Australia's Helen Garner wins Baillie Gifford nonfiction prize for her 'addictive' diaries
Helen Garner's candid diaries covering 20 years won the £50,000 Baillie Gifford Prize, marking the first time a diary collection received the award.
- On Tuesday, Helen Garner won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, announced by Robbie Millen at BMA House in London, and received 50,000.
- After reviewing over 350 books published between 1 November 2024 and 31 October 2025, the six judges made a unanimous choice, calling How to End a Story 'a remarkable, addictive book' and praising its sharp observation and 'reckless candor'.
- Helen Garner's diaries span the 1970s to the 1990s, with Garner describing it as 'recklessly candid, unsparing, occasionally eye-popping'; published in Australia and the U.K. this month.
- As an Australian author, Helen Garner extends a recent run of success for writers from her country, winning the Baillie Gifford Prize as her first major UK prize victory.
- Since 1999, this is the first time a diary has won the Baillie Gifford Prize, with the 800-page collected diaries expanding the prize's scope, selected after what Millen called a 'mysterious alchemy'.
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Helen Garner's 'unsparing' diary collection becomes first to win prestigious Baillie Gifford non-fiction prize
How To End A Story charts 20 years of Australian writer Helen Garner's life, from publishing her debut novel in the 1970s to the collapse of her marriage in the 1990s.
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