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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- In 1993, the novel won The Australian/Vogel Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript.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.
