Helen Trinca is an Australian journalist and author. She has been managing editor and as is associate editor at ''
The Australian
''The Australian'', with its Saturday edition, ''The Weekend Australian'', is a broadsheet newspaper published by News Corp Australia since 14 July 1964.Bruns, Axel. "3.1. The active audience: Transforming journalism from gatekeeping to gatew ...
''.
Background
Trinca was born in
Perth
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is ...
and graduated from the city's
University of Western Australia
The University of Western Australia (UWA) is a public research university in the Australian state of Western Australia. The university's main campus is in Perth, the state capital, with a secondary campus in Albany, Western Australia, Albany an ...
with a BA in English and anthropology. She began her career in journalism on ''The West Australian''. She moved to Sydney in 1980.
A former contributor to the ''
Griffith Review
''Griffith Review'' is a quarterly publication featuring essays, reportage, memoir, fiction, poetry and artwork from established and emerging writers and artists. Each edition focuses on a contemporary theme, enabling pertinent issues to be aired ...
'' and ''Australasian Business Intelligence'', Trinca previously held senior positions at ''
The Sydney Morning Herald
''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (''SMH'') is a daily compact newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and owned by Nine. Founded in 1831 as the ''Sydney Herald'', the ''Herald'' is the oldest continuously published newspaper ...
''.
Writing
Her third book, ''Madeleine'', is a biography of
Madeleine St John
Madeleine St John (12 November 194118 June 2006) was an Australian writer, the first Australian woman to be shortlisted Beresford, Bruce (2009) "In memory of a friendship", ''The Canberra Times'', 28 March 2009, Panorama, p. 9 for the Booker Priz ...
, who was the first Australian female writer to be shortlisted for the
Man Booker Prize
The Booker Prize, formerly known as the Booker Prize for Fiction (1969–2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002–2019), is a literary prize awarded each year for the best novel written in English and published in the United Kingdom or Ireland. ...
in 1997. Trinca's book was a joint winner of the 2014
Prime Minister's Literary Awards
The Australian Prime Minister's Literary Awards (PMLA) were announced at the end of 2007 by the incoming First Rudd ministry following the 2007 election. They are administered by the Minister for the Arts.[Doubleday (publisher)
Doubleday is an American publishing company. It was founded as the Doubleday & McClure Company in 1897 and was the largest in the United States by 1947. It published the work of mostly U.S. authors under a number of imprints and distributed th ...]
/Transworld, 2000) co-authored with
Anne Davies,
* ''Better Than Sex: How A Whole Generation Got Hooked On Work'', (Random House Australia, 2004) co-authored with
Catherine Fox
Catherine Mai-Lan Fox (born December 15, 1977) is an American former competition swimmer who won two gold medals at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
She is of Vietnamese and European descent. Her father, Thomas C. Fox (editor and former publisher of ...
,
* ''Madeleine : a life of Madeleine St John'', (Text Publishing Co., 2013)
References
External links
Helen Trinca on IMDb*
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Australian women journalists
Australian journalists
The Sydney Morning Herald people
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