True Stories: Selected Non-Fiction

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{{Italic title}}{{Short description|1996 collection of short non-fiction works by Helen Garner}}

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True Stories: Selected Non-Fiction is a collection of short non-fiction works by Australian writer Helen Garner first published in 1996 by Text Publishing.{{cite web|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/8282470|title=True stories : selected non-fiction / Helen Garner|work=Trove|publisher=National Library of Australia|accessdate=30 August 2018}}{{cite news|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-07/author-helen-garner-tells-it-like-it-is-on-75th-birthday/9123322|title=Helen Garner, 'surrounded by BS', still telling it like it is on her 75th birthday|last=Carey|first=Patrick|date=7 November 2018|work=Books and Arts - Radio National|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|accessdate=30 August 2018}} The short works in the collection start with Garner's immediate notes as a school teacher to her journalist accounts of visiting a morgue and a maternity ward in a hospital.{{cite news|url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/stories--true-stories-review-the-joys-of-heartbreak-and-hope-with-helen-garner-20171207-h00g4e.html|title=Stories and True Stories review: The joys of heartbreak and hope with Helen Garner|last=Fiona Wright|date=7 December 2017|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|accessdate=30 August 2018}} It won the 1997 Nita Kibble Literary Award.