Helen Dunmore

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Standard Name: Dunmore, Helen
Birth Name: Helen Dunmore
Married Name: Helen Charnley
HD first established herself as a poet, but became internationally known as a novelist when she won the Orange Prize in 1996. A prolific writer, she also had considerable success with books for children.
Colour photograph of Helen Dunmore opening the refurbished Henleaze Library in Redland, Bristol. in April 2008. She stands looking to her right with a couple of the audience visible behind her. Her pale blonde hair falls straight along her shoulders, and she wears a silver and zebra-print blouse.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Anthologization Jo Shapcott
JS was, with Helen Dunmore , U. A. Fanthorpe , and Elizabeth Jennings , one of the four poets featured in no. 5 of the audio-cassette series The Poetry Quartets, issued today by the...
Anthologization Jo Shapcott
JS had already appeared with Helen Dunmore and Matthew Sweeney in 1997 in Penguin Modern Poets volume 12. Writing by her was included in three anthologies in the year 2001. Andrew Motion placed her work...
Textual Production Gillian Slovo
For her second South African novel (later called a thriller),
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
4704 (28 May 1993): 23
The Betrayal, GS chose (as she quite often did) a title used by others as well. In this case...
Literary responses Marina Warner
This amazingly complex novel received very positive reviews in Britain. Helen Dunmore in The Times called the plot huge and vigorous and the novel rewarding, incisive and topical.
Marina Warner: Novelist and Mythographer. http://www.marinawarner.com.
Times Literary Supplement reviewer Ruth Scurr

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Texts

Dunmore, Helen. Talking to the Dead. Little, Brown, 1996.
Dunmore, Helen. Talking to the Dead. Penguin, 1997.
Dunmore, Helen. The Apple Fall. Bloodaxe Books, 1983.
Dunmore, Helen. The Betrayal. Fig Tree, 2010.
Dunmore, Helen. The Greatcoat. Hammer Books, 2012.
Dunmore, Helen. The Lie. Cornerstone Hutchinson, 2014.
Clanchy, Kate et al. “The Lyrics”. Magma, Vol.
13
, poetrymagazines.org.uk, pp. 11-18.
Dunmore, Helen. The Malarkey. Bloodaxe Books, 2012.
Dunmore, Helen. “The Mironov Legacy”. BBC Radio Four.
Dunmore, Helen. The Raw Garden. Bloodaxe Books, 1988.
Dunmore, Helen. The Sea Skater. Bloodaxe Books, 1986.
Dunmore, Helen. The Siege. Viking, 2001.
Dunmore, Helen. The Siege. Quality Paperbacks Direct, 2001.
Dunmore, Helen. The Tide Knot. HarperCollins, 2007.
Dunmore, Helen. With Your Crooked Heart. Viking, 1999.
Dunmore, Helen. Your Blue-Eyed Boy. Viking, 1998.
Dunmore, Helen. Zennor in Darkness. Viking-Penguin, 1993.