Helen Dunmore
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Helen Dunmore (born December 12, 1952) is a British poet, novelist and children's writer. Educated at the University of York, she now lives in Bristol. She has won awards for her fiction (the Society of Authors' McKitterick Prize and the Orange Prize) and also for her poetry: she has won the Cardiff International Poetry Prize, been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and her books named as Poetry Book Society Choice and Recommendations. Some of her children's books are now included in reading schemes for use in schools.
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[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Novels
- Zennor in Darkness (McKitterick Prize 1994)
- Burning Bright (1994).
- A Spell of Winter (Orange Prize 1996)
- Talking to the Dead
- Your Blue-Eyed Boy
- With your Crooked Heart
- The Siege (2001) (Shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award)
- Mourning Ruby
- House of Orphans
[edit] Short stories
- Love of Fat Men
- Ice Cream
- Rose, 1944
[edit] Books for children
- Go Fox and other stories
- Allie Away
- Zillah and me
- Tara's Tree House
- Clyde's Leopard
- Great-Grandma's Dancing Dress
- In the money
- The Seal Cove
- The Ingo trilogy
- Ingo
- The Tide Knot
- The trilogy is still being completed.
- The Lilac Tree
[edit] Poetry
- The Apple Fall (1983)
- The Sea Skater (1986)
- The Raw Garden (1988)
- Short Days, Long Nights (1991)
- Recovering a Body (1994)
- Secrets (1994)
- Bestiary (1997)
- Out of the Blue (2001)
- Glad of these times (2006)
