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The Betrayal (2010, longlisted for the Man Booker prize).

The Siege (2001, shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award and the Orange Prize 2002).A Spell of Winter (1995, Orange Prize 1996).Zennor in Darkness (1993, McKitterick Prize 1994).2017 (posthumously): Costa Book Awards Poetry and Book of the Year Awards, Inside the Wave.2015: Walter Scott Prize, shortlist, The Lie.2010: National Poetry Competition winner, "The Malarkey".2010: Man Booker Prize, longlist, The Betrayal.1990: Cardiff International Poetry Prize.1996: Orange Prize (inaugural winner), A Spell of Winter.1994: McKitterick Prize, Zennor in Darkness.1987: Poetry Book Society Choice, The Raw Garden.Dunmore had a son, daughter and stepson, and three grandchildren at the time of her death. Personal life ĭunmore's husband Frank Charnley, whom she married in 1980, is a lawyer. 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. 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. Some of Dunmore's children's books are included in reading schemes for use in schools. Dunmore was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL). She studied English at the University of York, and lived in Finland for two years (1973–75) and worked as a teacher. She attended Sutton High School, London and Nottingham Girls' High School, then direct grant grammar schools. Biography ĭunmore was born in Beverley, Yorkshire, in 1952, the second of four children of Betty ( née Smith) and Maurice Dunmore. She won the inaugural Orange Prize for Fiction, the National Poetry Competition, and posthumously the Costa Book Award. Her best known works include the novels Zennor in Darkness, A Spell of Winter and The Siege, and her last book of poetry Inside the Wave. Helen Dunmore FRSL (12 December 1952 – 5 June 2017 ) was a British poet, novelist, and short story and children's writer.