Helen Hodgman
Helen Hodgman (born 1946 in Aberdeen, Scotland) is 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". Career. On publication of her first novel, British critic Auberon Waugh, referred to her as "<nowiki>'a born writer with a style and an elan which is all her own"</nowiki>. In 1983 Hodgman was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, which, by 2001 had deprived her of the ability to write.