1. Helen Dale

    Australian writer

    Helen Dale is an Australian writer and lawyer. She is best known for writing The Hand that Signed the Paper, a novel about a Ukrainian family who collaborated with the Nazis in The Holocaust, under the pseudonym Helen Demidenko. A daughter of British immigrants, Dale was educated at Redeemer Lutheran College in Rochedale, a suburb of Brisbane. While studying English literature at the University of Queensland, she wrote The Hand that Signed the Paper. In 1993, the novel won The Australian/Vogel Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript. Dale published her book in 1994 and won the Miles Franklin Award, becoming the award's youngest winner. The following year, she was the subject of a major Australian literary controversy because she had falsely claimed Ukrainian ancestry as part of the basis of the book. The misrepresentation has been described as a "literary hoax" in The Sydney Morning Herald. The novel was subsequently reissued under her legal name, then Helen Darville. Wikipedia

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  2. en.wikipedia.org

    Helen Dale (born Helen Darville; 1972) is an Australian writer and lawyer.She is best known for writing The Hand that Signed the Paper, a novel about a Ukrainian family who collaborated with the Nazis in The Holocaust, under the pseudonym Helen Demidenko.. A daughter of British immigrants, Dale was educated at Redeemer Lutheran College in Rochedale, a suburb of Brisbane.
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  4. This was published 4 years ago. From the Archives 1995: Writer Demidenko revealed to be Helen Darville It was the literary storm of the decade: Helen Demidenko, author of the 1995 Miles Franklin ...
  5. goodreads.com

    The author, Helen Darville, pretended to be an immigrant from the Ukraine. It was the central part of her author persona. At the time, the Australian literary scene was obsessed with multiculturalism, and also with tales of trauma. World War 2 was in vogue, as it was the 50th anniversary of the war's end.
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  6. It took two years for the truth to emerge: Helen Demidenko was Helen Darville; she had no Ukrainian heritage. Her narrator, Fiona Kovalenko, was not a barely-disguised surrogate for the author after all: she was a pure invention—and so, it seemed, was Helen Demidenko. As claims of fraud fought for airtime and column inches beside accusations ...
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  7. manuscripts.library.uq.edu.au

    Helen Darville Collection . Size 4 boxes. Contents Drafts, proof pages, reviews, notebooks, correspondence, newspaper cuttings. Date range 1987 to 1996 . Biography Helen Darville was born in Brisbane, Queensland, in 1971, the daughter of English migrants. She was educated at Rochedale Redeemer Lutheran
  8. readersvoice.com

    Helen Darville won the Miles Franklin Award, a prestigious literary honor in Australia, in 1995, for her novel THE HAND THAT SIGNED THE PAPER. The novel is about Ukrainian war crimes during World War Two. Originally published under a pseudonym, Helen Demidenko, the novel and its author triggered controversy and debate. It's also a good read.
  9. May 15, 2023Helen Dale (formerly Darville/Demidenko), author of The Hand that Signed the Paper Maggie Nolan , Associate professor, Brisbane campus of Australian Catholic University. She is an expert on ...
  10. alchetron.com

    Sep 23, 2024Helen Dale (born Helen Darville 24 January 1972), known for a time by her pen name Helen Demidenko, is an Australian writer and lawyer. She served as a senior adviser to David Leyonhjelm, a Liberal Democrat member of the Australian Senate, from 2014 through to the election in 2016. A daughter of Br
  11. biographies.net

    Jan 14, 2024Helen Dale, also known as Helen Darville and Helen Demidenko, is an Australian writer and lawyer. She was educated at Redeemer Lutheran College in Rochedale, a suburb of Brisbane. While studying English literature at the University of Queensland, she wrote The Hand that Signed the Paper, a novel about a Ukrainian family who become both ...

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