About the Author

The author of the novel Ingo is Helen Dunmore.

Helen Dunmore was born in Yorkshire, in the December of 1952. She had three other siblings. She also had a large extended family which influenced her life greatly. From childhood, poetry had always been important to her. She then went to study English at the University of York and taught English in Finland after university.

At the same time Helen Dunmore started writing down poetry and published these in magazines. After writing two novels, with neither of them being published, she did not write for another ten years. Yet, she continued to write poetry.

During these ten years, she travelled a lot, worked for newspapers, and reviewed poetry as well as writing them.

In the 1980's - 1890's Helen Dunmore taught poetry and creative writing to places such as schools, hospitals, and prisons. She also taught at several universities.

Starting in the late 1890's, she started publishing short stories and this helped her to start writing novels again as well.

Here are some books she has published so far:

• Going to Egypt (1992)
• Zennor in Darkness (1993)
• A Spell of Winter (1996)
• The Seige (2001)
• House of Orphans (2006)
• Counting the Stars (2008)

The Ingo tetralogy

• Ingo (2005)
• The Tide Knot (2006)
• The Deep (2007)
• The Crossing of Ingo (2008)

Helen Dunmore has won the following awards for her books: Society of Authors' McKitterick Prize and the Orange Prize.
Helen Dunmore has won the following awards for poems: Cardiff International Poetry Prize.

http://www.helendunmore.com/about.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Dunmore