Helen Dunmore
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Born | Beverley, Yorkshire, England | 12 December 1952
Died | 5 June 2017 Bristol, England | (aged 64)
Occupation | Poet, novelist, children's writer |
Nationality | British |
Alma mater | University of York |
Notable awards |
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Spouse | Francis Charnley (m. 1980) |
Children | Patrick Tess Ollie (stepson) |
Helen Dunmore FRSL (12 December 1952 – 5 June 2017[1]) was a British poet, novelist, and short story and children's writer.[2]
Biography
Dunmore was born in Beverley, Yorkshire, in 1952, the second of four children of Betty (née Smith) and Maurice Dunmore. She studied English at York University, and lived in Finland for two years (1973–75) and worked as a teacher. She lived after that in Bristol.[3][1] 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.[4] She died on 5 June 2017.[1][5][6][7] 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.[8][9]
Personal life
Her husband Frank Charnley, whom she married in 1980, is a lawyer.[10] Dunmore had a son, daughter and stepson, and three grandchildren at the time of her death.[1]
Awards and honours
- 1987 Poetry Book Society Choice, The Raw Garden[11]
- 1994 McKitterick Prize, Zennor in Darkness[12]
- 1996 Orange Prize (inaugural winner), A Spell of Winter[13][14]
- 1990 Cardiff International Poetry Prize[15]
- 1997 T. S. Eliot Prize, shortlist, Bestiary[16]
- 2010: Man Booker Prize, longlist, The Betrayal [17]
- 2010: "The Malarkey" National Poetry Competition [18]
- 2015: Walter Scott Prize, shortlist, The Lie[19]
- 2017 (posthumously): Costa Book Awards Poetry and Book of the Year Awards, Inside the Wave[8][9]
Bibliography
Novels
- Zennor in Darkness (1993) (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 and the Orange Prize 2002)
- Mourning Ruby (2003)[20]
- House of Orphans (2006)
- Counting the Stars (2008)
- The Betrayal (Longlisted for the Man Booker prize 2010)
- The Greatcoat (2012) (ISBN 978-0-09-956493-5)
- The Lie (2014)
- Exposure (2016) (ISBN 978-0-09-195394-2)
- An "Exclusive edition for independent bookshops" (ISBN 978-1-78633-000-0) includes a 14-page essay "On Reading"[21]
- Birdcage Walk (2017) (Longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize 2018)
Short story collections
- Love of Fat Men (1997)
- Ice Cream (2001)
- Rose, 1944 (2005)
- Girl, Balancing and Other Stories (2018)
Young adult books
- 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
- Ingo (2005)
- The Tide Knot (2006)
- The Deep (2007)
- The Crossing of Ingo (2008)
- Stormswept (2012)
Children's books
- Going to Egypt (1992)
- In the Money (1995)
- Go Fox (1996)
- Fatal Error (1996)
- Amina's Blanket (1996)
- Allie's Apples (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 collections
- 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)
References
- ^ a b c d Kate Kellaway (5 June 2017). "Helen Dunmore obituary". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 9 June 2017. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
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- ^ Dowson, Jane; Entwistle, Alice (2005). A History of Twentieth-Century British Women's Poetry. Cambridge University Press. p. xx. ISBN 978-0-521-81946-6. Archived from the original on 6 March 2016.
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- ^ Dunmore, Helen (2016). "On Reading: an exclusive for independent bookshops". Exposure. Hutchnson. pp. 395–410. ISBN 978-1-78633-000-0. Title page of essay on p 395, text of essay on pp 397-410. Dustjacket bears the words "Exclusive edition for independent bookshops"
External links
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- 1952 births
- 2017 deaths
- Alumni of the University of York
- British children's writers
- British women children's writers
- British writers of young adult literature
- Women writers of young adult literature
- British women novelists
- 20th-century British novelists
- 21st-century British novelists
- English women poets
- Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature
- Deaths from cancer in England
- 21st-century British women writers
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