The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction Announces Helen Garner as the 2025 Winner
How to End a Story: Collected Diaries by Helen Garner is tonight named winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2025. The winner was announced by Chair of Judges, Robbie Millen, at a ceremony hosted at BMA House in London, UK, and generously supported by The Blavatnik Family Foundation. The announcement was streamed to readers around the world via the Baillie Gifford Prize social media channels. How to End a Story is a volume of Garner’s inimitable diary entries, from the early stages of her career in bohemian Melbourne, publishing her debut novel while raising a young daughter in the 1970s; the throes of an all-consuming love affair in the 1980s; and clinging to a disintegrating marriage in the 1990s. Told with devastating honesty, steel-sharp wit and an ecstatic attention to the details of everyday life, this year’s Baillie Gifford Prize-winning book reveals the inner life of a woman in love, a mother, a friend and a formidable writer at work. The ceremony was sponsored by the Blavatnik Family Foundation and held at BMA House.
