December 12, 1952 - June 5, 2017
British poet, novelist and short story & children's book writer
Author of "A Spell of Winter" (for which she was the inaugural winner of the Orange Prize in 1996), "Bestiary" (for which she was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize in 1997) and "The Betrayal" (for which she was on the longlist for the Man Booker Prize in 2010)