Helen Dunmore

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Helen Dunmore (born December 12, 1952) is a British poet, novelist and children's writer.[1] 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 had her books named as Poetry Book Society Choice and Recommendations). Dunmore is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL). 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 (1996)
  • Your Blue-Eyed Boy (1998)
  • With your Crooked Heart (1999)
  • The Siege (2001) (Shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; shortlisted for the Orange Prize 2002)
  • Mourning Ruby (2003)
  • House of Orphans (2006)
  • Counting the Stars (2008)

[edit] Short stories

  • Love of Fat Men (1997)
  • Ice Cream (2001)
  • Rose, 1944 (2005)

[edit] Books for Teens

  • The Zillah and Katie trilogy
    • 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 tetralogy

[edit] Children's books

  • Going to Egypt (1992)
  • In the Money (1995)
  • Go Fox (1996)
  • Fatal Error (1996)
  • Amina's Blanket (1996)
  • Clyde's Leopard (1998)
  • Great-Grandma's Dancing Dress (1998)
  • Brother Brother, Sister Sister (1999)
  • Aliens Don't Eat Bacon Sandwiches (2000)
  • Tara's Tree House (2003)
  • The Allie Books (1997-2000)
  • The Ugly Duckling (2001)

[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)

All the Things You Are Not Yet

[edit] References

  1. ^ Helen Dunmore

[edit] External links