How to End a Story: Collected Diaries by Helen Garner has been named winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2025.
The winner was announced by Chair ofJudges, Robbie Millen, at a ceremony hosted at BMA House in London. Since its founding as the Samuel Johnson Prize in 1999, this is the first time the prize has been awarded to a diary. This marks Garner’s first major prize victory in the UK, who is recognised as one of the great Australian writers.
