(Photo: Caroline Forbes)Award-winning British novelist, children's author and poet Helen Dunmore has died at the age of 64, her publisher Penguin Random House announced. "The ground beneath my feet has never been more uncertain, but what is sure is that the ambulance has already called and there is no vagueness about my mortality," wrote Dunmore about her cancer diagnosis in a recent article for The Guardian. Dunmore won the inaugural Orange Prize - now known as the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction - in 1996 for her novel A Spell of Winter. Tributes to Dunmore have poured in on social media, including one from fellow writer Philip Pullman. "What a loss: Helen Dunmore was a fine writer and a warm and generous human being," said Pullman on Twitter.

Source: CBC News June 06, 2017 14:37 UTC