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    Helen Zahavi   

W r i t e r

"And there was Helen Zahavi's hideous, kinky little

revenge-novel of violence done to men"

Salman Rushdie

"What is genuinely subversive - and therefore ritually punished - is writing

like Zahavi's, writing that lets the animals finally speak"

​Naomi Wolf

Welcome to the website of Helen Zahavi, author of Dirty Weekend, True Romance and Donna and the Fatman.

All three novels provoked very strong -- sometimes outraged -- reactions, and have been widely reviewed and translated

Please click on the links above for reviews, extracts and interviews, and for film clips from the Michael Winner movie of Dirty Weekend.

Cette fleur noire, brillament éclose dans les sables de Brighton

Le Monde

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