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Helen Dunmore

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Helen Dunmore FRSL (12 December 1952 – 5 June 2017<ref name=Kellaway />) was a British poet, novelist, and short story and children's writer.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Her best known works include the novels Zennor in Darkness, A Spell of Winter and The Siege, and her last book of poetry Inside the Wave. She won the inaugural Orange Prize for Fiction, the National Poetry Competition, and posthumously the Costa Book Award.<ref name="Cain">Template:Cite news</ref>

BiographyEdit

Dunmore was born in Beverley, Yorkshire, in 1952, the second of four children of Betty (née Smith) and Maurice Dunmore. She attended Sutton High School, London<ref>Sutton High School Magazine, 1965 and 1967. (Poems published in 1965 and 1967, and prize awarded for History and English listed in 1967 magazine.)</ref> and Nottingham Girls' High School, then direct grant grammar schools.

She studied English at the University of York, and lived in Finland for two years (1973–75) and worked as a teacher. She lived after that in Bristol.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=Kellaway>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Dunmore was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL). Some of Dunmore's children's books are included in reading schemes for use in schools.

In March 2017, she published her last novel, Birdcage Walk, as well as an article about mortality for The Guardian written after she was diagnosed with terminal cancer.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> She died on 5 June 2017.<ref name=Kellaway /><ref name="cain">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Her final poetry collection Inside the Wave, published in April 2017 shortly before her death, posthumously won the Poetry and overall Book of the Year awards in the 2017 Costa Book Awards.<ref name="costa-2017">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="cain-2018">Template:Cite news</ref>

Personal lifeEdit

Dunmore's husband Frank Charnley, whom she married in 1980, is a lawyer.<ref name=HDperMM>Template:Cite news</ref> Dunmore had a son, daughter and stepson, and three grandchildren at the time of her death.<ref name=Kellaway />

Awards and honoursEdit

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BibliographyEdit

NovelsEdit

An "Exclusive edition for independent bookshops" (Template:ISBN) includes a 14-page essay "On Reading"<ref>Template:Cite book Title page of essay on p 395, text of essay on pp. 397–410. Dustjacket bears the words "Exclusive edition for independent bookshops"</ref>

Short story collectionsEdit

Young adult booksEdit

  • Zillah and Me!
    • The Lilac Tree (first published as Zillah and Me) (2004)
    • The Seal Cove (first published as The Zillah Rebellion) (2004)
    • The Silver Bead (2004)
  • The Ingo Chronicles

Children's booksEdit

  • Going to Egypt (1992)
  • In the Money (1995)
  • Go Fox (1996)
  • Fatal Error (1996)
  • Amina's Blanket (1996)
  • Allie's Apples (1997)
  • Bestiary (1997)
  • Clyde's Leopard (1998)
  • Great-Grandma's Dancing Dress (1998)
  • Brother Brother, Sister Sister (1999)
  • Allie's Rabbit (1999)
  • Allie's Away (2000)
  • Aliens Don't Eat Bacon Sandwiches (2000)
  • The Ugly Duckling (2001)
  • Tara's Tree House (2003)
  • The Ferry Birds (2010)
  • The Islanders (2011)
  • The Lonely Sea Dragon (2013)

Poetry collectionsEdit

  • The Apple Fall (Bloodaxe Books, 1983)
  • The Sea Skater (Bloodaxe Books, 1986)
  • The Raw Garden (Bloodaxe Books, 1988)
  • Short Days, Long Nights: New & Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 1991)
  • Recovering a Body (Bloodaxe Books, 1994)
  • Secrets (The Bodley Head, 1994) [children's poetry title]
  • Bestiary (Bloodaxe Books, 1997)
  • Out of the Blue: Poems 1975–2001 (Bloodaxe Books, 2001)
  • Snollygoster and Other Poems (Scholastic Press, 2001) [children's poetry title]
  • Glad of these times (Bloodaxe Books, 2007)
  • The Malarkey (Bloodaxe Books, 2012)
  • Inside the Wave (Bloodaxe Books, 2017)

ReferencesEdit

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