Helen Walsh
Encyclopedia
Helen Walsh is an English writer. To date she has written three novels: Brass (2005), Once Upon a Time in England (2008), and Go to Sleep (2011), all of which have been published by Canongate
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, Spain
but has returned to England in her early twenties.
. Her second novel, Once Upon a Time In England, was published in 2008 and won a 2009 Somerset Maugham Award
and was shortlisted for the 2008 Portico Prize. Her third novel, Go to Sleep is due to be published in 2011.
Canongate
The Canongate is a small district at the heart of Edinburgh, the capital city of Scotland.The name derives from the main street running through the area: called Canongate without the definite article, "the". Canongate forms the lower, eastern half of the Royal Mile in Edinburgh's historic Old Town....
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Biography
At the age of 16, she moved to BarcelonaBarcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
, Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
but has returned to England in her early twenties.
Works
Her controversial debut, Brass, was published in 2004 and won a Betty Trask AwardBetty Trask Award
The Betty Trask Prize and Awards are for first novels written by authors under the age of 35, who reside in a current or former Commonwealth nation. The awards were established in 1984 by the Society of Authors, at the bequest of the late Betty Trask, a reclusive author of over thirty romance novels...
. Her second novel, Once Upon a Time In England, was published in 2008 and won a 2009 Somerset Maugham Award
Somerset Maugham Award
The Somerset Maugham Award is a British literary prize given each May by the Society of Authors. It is awarded to whom they judge to be the best writer or writers under the age of thirty-five of a book published in the past year. The prize was instituted in 1947 by William Somerset Maugham and thus...
and was shortlisted for the 2008 Portico Prize. Her third novel, Go to Sleep is due to be published in 2011.