Prize-winning novelist dies

British poet and novelist Helen Dunmore has died at the age of 64.

The Orange Prize-winning author of A Spell of Winter had been battling cancer. Dunmore revealed her diagnosis in March.

Her death was announced by publishing house Bloodaxe Books, which said on its website: “We are immensely saddened by the news that Helen Dunmore has died.”

Born in Yorkshire in 1952, Dunmore published her first poetry collection, The Apple Fall, in 1983.