{"id":8143,"date":"2025-03-11T10:56:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T10:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tse.spyrosntanos.com\/?post_type=person&#038;p=8143"},"modified":"2025-06-18T10:37:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T09:37:46","slug":"helen-dunmore-2","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/person\/helen-dunmore-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Helen Dunmore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Helen Dunmore (1952-2017) was a poet, novelist, short story and children\u2019s writer. Her poetry books received a Poetry Book Society Choice and Recommendations, the Alice Hunt Bartlett Award, and the Signal Poetry Award. <i>Bestiary\u00a0<\/i>was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize in 1997. <em>Inside the Wave<\/em>\u00a0won the 2017 Costa Poetry Award and went on to be named Costa Book of the Year. She won \ufb01rst prize in the Cardiff International Poetry Competition in 1990 with her poem \u2018Sisters leaving the dance\u2019, and first prize in the National Poetry Competition in 2010 with \u2018The Malarkey\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>After making her debut with\u00a0<em>The Apple Fall<\/em> in 1983, she published all her poetry with Bloodaxe. Her earlier work was collected in <i>Out of the Blue: Poems 1975-2001<\/i> (2001), which was followed by\u00a0<i>Glad of These Times<\/i> (2007), <i>The Malarkey<\/i> (2012), and <i>Inside the Wave<\/i> (2017), her tenth and final collection. A new retrospective, <em>Counting Backwards: Poems 1975-2017<\/em>, was published by Bloodaxe in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>She published twelve novels and three books of short stories with Penguin, including <i>A Spell of Winter<\/i> (1995), winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction,\u00a0<i>Talking to the Dead<\/i> (1996), <i>The Siege<\/i> (2001), <i>Mourning Ruby<\/i> (2003), <i>House of Orphans<\/i> (2006) and <i>The Betrayal<\/i> (2010), as well as <i>The Greatcoat<\/i> (2012) with Hammer, and <i>The Lie<\/i> (2014), <i>Exposure<\/i>\u00a0(2016) and <em>Birdcage Walk <\/em>(2017) with Hutchinson. A posthumous story collection,\u00a0<em>Girl, Balancing and Other Stories,<\/em> followed from Hutchinson in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Beverley, Yorkshire, she studied English at York University, and after graduating in 1973 spent two years teaching in Finland before settling in Bristol.<\/p>\n<p><em>This complete biography of Helen Dunmore is taken from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodaxebooks.com\">Bloodaxe Books<\/a> website.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helen Dunmore (1952-2017) was a poet, novelist, short story and children\u2019s writer. Her poetry books received a Poetry Book Society Choice and Recommendations, the Alice Hunt Bartlett Award, and the Signal Poetry Award. Bestiary\u00a0was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize in 1997. Inside the Wave\u00a0won the 2017 Costa Poetry Award and went on to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10722,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-8143","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/8143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}