Helen Dale, Date of Birth

    

Helen Dale

Australian writer

Date of Birth: 24-Jan-1972

Profession: writer, novelist

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

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About Helen Dale

  • Helen 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.
  • She has been a contributing writer to Quillette since 2017.A daughter of British immigrants, Darville 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 collaborated with the Nazis in the Holocaust.
  • In 1993, the novel won The Australian/Vogel Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript. Dale published her book in 1994 under the pseudonym Helen Demidenko 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 (and her pseudonym).
  • 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.
  • It won the 1995 Australian Literary Society Gold Medal. After teaching, Dale returned to university, gaining her law degree in 2002.
  • She later did post-graduate law study at Oxford and completed an LLB degree in 2012 at the University of Edinburgh.
  • She returned to Australia and became a senior adviser to David Leyonhjelm, a Liberal Democrat member of the Australian Senate, but at the end of May 2016 Leyonhjelm revealed that Dale had left his employ.

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