Helen Hodgman
Introduction '''Helen Hodgman''' (27 April 1945 – 6 June 2022) was an Australian novelist. 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''.__NOTOC__
Career 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".In 1983 Hodgman was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, which, by 2001 had deprived her of the ability to write. She died in 2022 aged 77 in Sydney.
Works === Novels ===* ''Blue Skies'', London: Duckworth, 1976 ; translated into German: ''Gleichbleibend schön'' (2012) * ''Jack and Jill'', London: Duckworth, 1978 ; translated into German: ''Jack & Jill'' (2015) * ''Broken Words'', Ringwood, Victoria: Penguin, 1988 ; US edition: ''Ducks'', Harmony, 1989 * ''Waiting for Matindi'', St Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 1998 * ''Passing Remarks'', Sydney: Anchor Books, 1996 * ''The Bad Policeman'', Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 2001 ===Screenplay===* ''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.
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