Helen Trinca

{{short description|Australian journalist and author}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2018}} {{Use Australian English|date=July 2018}} '''Helen Trinca''' is an Australian journalist and author. After stints as managing editor, European correspondent, and editor of ''The Weekend Australian Magazine'', she is editor of the business magazine insert ''The Deal'' at ''The Australian''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Helen Trinca, Editor The Deal |url=https://www.theaustralian.com.au/author/helen-trinca|access-date=2025-06-17|website=The Australian}}</ref>

== Background == Trinca was born in Perth and graduated from the city's University of Western Australia with a BA in English and anthropology.<ref>{{cite web|title=Helen Trinca, Schools of Humanities, Social Sciences and Music|url=http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/profiles/h-trinca|website=University of Western Australia|access-date=15 December 2017}}</ref> She began her career in journalism on ''The West Australian''. She moved to Sydney in 1980.<ref>{{cite web|title=Helen Trinca, Contributor|url=https://griffithreview.com/contributors/helen-trinca/|website=Griffith Review|access-date=3 December 2017}}</ref>

A former contributor to the ''Griffith Review''<ref>{{cite journal|title=Like a Tourist with Benefits|journal=Griffith Review|number=47|year=2015|pages=91–96|issn=1839-2954|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/212622352|via=Trove|access-date=17 June 2025}}</ref> and ''Australasian Business Intelligence'',<ref>{{cite web|title=Stephen Covey: Kick the control habit|work=Australasian Business Intelligence|date=20 September 2004|issn=1320-6680|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/107934035|via=Trove|access-date=17 June 2025}}</ref> Trinca previously held senior positions at ''The Sydney Morning Herald''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/throsby/helen-trinca/6939788|title=Helen Trinca|type=interviewed by Margaret Throsby|website=ABC Radio National|date=15 November 2015 |access-date=3 December 2017}}</ref>

==Writing== Her third book, ''Madeleine'', is a biography of Madeleine St John,<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/portrait-of-a-troubled-lady-20130417-2i15v.html|title=Portrait of a troubled lady|last=Kretser|first=Michelle de|author-link=Michelle de Kretser|date=20 April 2013|newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald|access-date=3 December 2017}}</ref> the first Australian female writer to be shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 1997.<ref>{{multiref2|{{Cite web|url=http://www.e-anglais.com/lectures/Booker_Prize.html|title=Man Booker Prize: Shortlists & Winners|last=Halion|first=Kevin|website=www.e-anglais.com|access-date=3 December 2017|ref=none}}|{{Cite news|url=http://thenewdaily.com.au/entertainment/books/2014/02/14/stella-prize-longlist-announced/|title=Stella Prize longlist announced |date=14 February 2014|newspaper=The New Daily|access-date=3 December 2017}}}}</ref> Trinca's book was a joint winner of the 2014 Prime Minister's Literary Awards.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/australia-books-blog/2014/dec/09/the-prime-ministers-literary-awards-the-ties-that-bind|title=The Prime Minister's Literary awards: the ties that bind|last=Shaw|first=Martin|date=9 December 2014|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=3 December 2017}}</ref>

Trinca was shortlisted for the 2024 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship for her proposed biography of Australian writer Elizabeth Harrower.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-01-11 |title=2024 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship shortlist announced |url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2024/01/11/245294/2024-hazel-rowley-literary-fellowship-shortlist-announced/ |access-date=2025-01-19 |website=Books+Publishing}}</ref> Titled ''Looking for Elizabeth: The Life of Elizabeth Harrower'', it was published in July 2025.<ref>{{cite book|last=Trinca|first=Helen|title=Looking for Elizabeth: The Life of Elizabeth Harrower|date=July 2025|publisher=La Trobe University Press|isbn=9781760645755}}</ref>

==Bibliography== * ''Waterfront: The Battle that Changed Australia'', (Doubleday (publisher)/Transworld, 2000) co-authored with Anne Davies, {{ISBN|1864710233}}<ref>{{cite web|title=''Waterfront: The Battle that Changed Australia''|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/6550661|type=Trove library record|access-date=17 June 2025}}</ref> * ''Better than Sex: How a Whole Generation Got Hooked on Work'', (Random House Australia, 2004) co-authored with Catherine Fox, {{ISBN|1740511964}}<ref>{{cite web|title=''Better than Sex: How a Whole Generation Got Hooked on Work''|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/30258528|type=Trove library record|access-date=17 June 2025}}</ref> * ''Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St John'', (Text Publishing, 2013) {{ISBN|9781921922848}}<ref>{{cite web|title=''Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St John''|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/174096982|type=Trove library record|access-date=17 June 2025}}</ref> * {{cite book|last=Trinca|first=Helen|author-mask=0|title=Looking for Elizabeth: The Life of Elizabeth Harrower|date=July 2025|publisher=La Trobe University Press|isbn=9781760645755|ref=none}}

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