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She won the McKitterick Prize for her debut novel Zennor in Darkness in 1994, which imagines DH Lawrence鈥檚 life in Cornwall during World War One.

The Yorkshire-born author then won the inaugural Orange Prize for Fiction in 1996 with her third novel A Spell of Winter, where two siblings find forbidden love and dark family secrets in their grandfather鈥檚 house prior to the First World War.

Dunmore was shortlisted for both the Whitbread Novel Award and the Orange Prize for her 2001 book, The Siege. Set during the 1941 siege of Leningrad, two pairs of lovers, Anna and Andrei, Anna鈥檚 father and the banned actress Marina, must endure the inescapable privations and horrors.

In The Betrayal, Dunmore takes her readers back to Leningrad. She takes up the story a decade on, when life is defined by the fear and repression of Stalin鈥檚 terrible regime. The Betrayal was long-listed for the 2010 Man Booker Prize and was a 成人论坛 Radio 4 Book at Bedtime.

In 2012 The Greatcoat was also broadcast as a Book at Bedtime. The supernatural tale was the first novel released by Hammer Books, and was followed up with her 2014 novel, The Lie.

Dunmore read English at the University of York and then taught English in Finland for two years. Here she began writing the poems which became her first collection The Apple Fall, published in 1983. Her poem The Malarkey won the National Poetry Competition in 2009.

She has also enjoyed success with younger audiences. Her first children鈥檚 book was 1992鈥檚 Going to Egypt. In 2005 she published Ingo, the first of the enchanting series set in a world beneath the sea off Cornwall鈥檚 coast.

Dunmore was Chair of the Society of Authors in 2005, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She has reviewed books for The Times, The Guardian and The Observer, and has judged the 成人论坛 National Short Story Award, the TS Eliot Prize and Whitbread Book of the Year.

Elizabeth Allard, 成人论坛 Readings Unit