Helen Dunmore

Poet and novelist, born in Yorkshire, England, UK. She studied at the University of York and began writing poetry, her collections including The Apple Fall (1983), The Raw Garden (1988), and Secrets (1994). Her children's books include Going to Egypt (1992), Fatal Error (1996), and The Lilac Tree (2004), and among her novels for adults are Zennor in Darkness (1993), Talking to the Dead (1996), and With Your Crooked Heart (2000). In 1996 she won the inaugural Orange Prize for women fiction writers for her novel A Spell of Winter. Later novels include Mourning Ruby (2003) and House of Orphans (2006).

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. 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

Short stories

Love of Fat Men Ice Cream Rose, 1944

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

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)