![]() ![]() She was a fellow of the Royal Society for Literature. Her eight collections for adults have been given the Poetry Book Society Choice and Recommendations and Bestiary was shortlisted for the T S Eliot prize. Since then Dunmore has become one of our most acclaimed literary figures, winning many prizes including the inaugural Orange Prize for Fiction and The Signal Poetry Award for children’s poetry. Zennor in Darkness, set during the First World War when D H Lawrence lived at Zennor in Cornwall, won the McKitterick Prize. Her fiction career began with short stories before her first novel was published in 1994. Her second, The Sea Skater, won the Alice Hunt Bartlett Award. Her debut collection, The Apple Fall, was one of the first titles published by Bloodaxe Books. She began to publish poetry and give readings in her early twenties. She studied English at York University and then taught for two years in Finland. As she said herself “In a large family you hear a great many stories,” a grounding which influenced her career as a writer of both poetry and fiction. Helen Dunmore (1952-2017) was the second of four children, her father the eldest of twelve. ![]()
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