Helen Dunmore is a British poet, novelist and children's writer. Educated at the University of York

University of York

The University of York , is an academic institution located in the city of York, England. Established in 1963, the campus university has expanded to more than thirty departments and centres, covering a wide range of subjects...

, she now lives in Bristol

Bristol

Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone with an estimated 1,070,000 residents in 2007...

.
She has won awards for her fiction (the Society of Authors

Society of Authors

The Society of Authors is a trade union for professional writers that was founded in 1884 to protect the rights of writers and fight to retain those rights .It has counted amongst its members and presidents numerous notable writers and poets including Tennyson The Society of Authors (UK) is a...

' McKitterick Prize

McKitterick Prize

The McKitterick Prize is a United Kingdom literary prize. It is administered by the Society of Authors. It was endowed by Tom McKitterick, who had been an editor of The Political Quarterly but had also written a novel which was never published. The prize is awarded annually for a first novel by...

 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

T. S. Eliot Prize

The T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry is awarded by the Poetry Book Society to "the best collection of new verse in English first published in the UK or the Republic of Ireland" in any particular year. The Prize was inaugurated in 1993 in celebration of the Poetry Book Society's 40th birthday and in...

 and had her books named as Poetry Book Society Choice and Recommendations). Dunmore is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

Royal Society of Literature

The Royal Society of Literature is the "senior literary organisation in Britain". It was founded in 1820 by George IV, in order to "reward literary merit and excite literary talent". The Society's first president was Thomas Burgess, who later became the Bishop of Salisbury...

 (FRSL). Some of her children's books are now included in reading schemes for use in schools.

Novels

• Zennor in Darkness (McKitterick Prize
  McKitterick Prize
  The McKitterick Prize is a United Kingdom literary prize. It is administered by the Society of Authors. It was endowed by Tom McKitterick, who had been an editor of The Political Quarterly but had also written a novel which was never published. The prize is awarded annually for a first novel by...
  
   1994)
• Burning Bright (1994)
• A Spell of Winter
  A Spell of Winter
  A Spell of Winter is a 1995 gothic novel by Helen Dunmore, set in England, around the time of World War I. The novel was the first recipient of the Orange Prize for Fiction, in 1996.-Synopsis:...
  
  (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
  Mourning Ruby
  - Plot introduction :Rebecca was abandoned by her mother in a shoebox in the backyard of an Italian restaurant when she was two years old. She is adopted by foster parents and thirty years later gets married to Adam, a consultant neonatologist dealing with premature babies. She gives birth to Ruby...
  
  (2003)
• House of Orphans (2006)
• Counting the Stars (2008)
• The Betrayal (2010) (ISBN 978-1905490592)

Short story collections

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

Books for Teens

• 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
    Ingo (novel)
    Ingo is a children's novel by English writer Helen Dunmore, published in 2005 and the first of the Ingo tetralogy .-Plot summary:...
    
    (2005)
  • The Tide Knot
    The Tide Knot
    The Tide Knot is a children's novel by English writer Helen Dunmore, published in 2006 and the second of the Ingo tetralogy...
    
    (2006)
  • The Deep
    The Deep (novel)
    The Deep is a children's novel by English writer Helen Dunmore, published in 2007 and the third of the Ingo tetralogy .-Plot summary:...
    
    (2007)
  • The Crossing of Ingo
    The Crossing of Ingo
    The Crossing of Ingo is a children's fantasy novel by Helen Dunmore, first published in 2008. It is the fourth and final volume in the Ingo tetralogy.It was longlisted for the 2008 Booktrust Teenage Prize.-Plot summary:...
    
    (2008)
  • Stormswept
    Stormswept
    Stormswept is a 1923 silent film starring brothers Wallace Beery and Noah Beery. The advertising phrase used for the movie was "Wallace and Noah Beery, The Two Greatest Character Actors on the American Screen." The movie was written by Winifred Dunn from the H.H...
    
    (to be released 5 January 2012)

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)
• The Ugly Duckling (2001)
• Tara's Tree House (2003)
• The Allie Books (1997–2000)
• Ingo (2005)

Poetry collections

• 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)

External links

• Author site
• HarperCollins Canada site
• Dunmore reads her poem, "Wild strawberries"
• Ingo by Helen Dunmore