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About the Introducer
Helen Dunmore was a British poet, novelist and children’s writer. Her novels include A Spell of Winter (1995), winner of the inaugural Orange Prize for Fiction; The Siege (2001), shortlisted for both the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction; and The Betrayal (2010), shortlisted for the 2011 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Orwell Prize. Her poetry collections include The Sea Skater (1986), winner of the Alice Hunt Bartlett Award, and The Raw Garden (1988), a Poetry Book Society Choice; her poem ’The Malarkey’ won the 2010 National Poetry Competition. Dunmore’s critical work includes new introductions to Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina and A Confession. She was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Dunmore died in 2017.