Helen Smith (writer)

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Helen Smith
Born Brixton, London, England
OccupationNovelist, dramatist
NationalityEnglish
Period1999-present
Genre Fiction, Mystery, Dystopian, Children's
Website
helensmithbooks.com www.emperorsclothes.co.uk

Helen Smith is an English novelist and dramatist. She is a member of the Mystery Writers of America, [1] English PEN and the Crime Writers Association. [2] She lives in Brixton, London. [3]

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Biography

Helen Smith is a novelist and playwright who lives in London. She has one daughter, Lauren, with the writer Damon Rochefort. When her daughter was small, they travelled extensively in Australia, South East Asia, Hong Kong and South America before returning to the UK where her first novel, Alison Wonderland, [4] was published.

Helen Smith was a winning writer in the IRDP London Playwrights Festival [5] and was the recipient of an Arts Council Award for The Miracle Inspector. Her novels have been optioned for development by the BBC. She volunteers as a writing mentor with the Write to Life group run by the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture. [6]

Bibliography

Novels

Short Stories

Children's Books

Anthologies

Theatre

2010 The Memory Man [12] Arcola Theatre, London
2009 Purple, Silver, Olive, Orange [13] Arcola Theatre, London
2007 The Psychic Detective [14] National Theatre Watch This Space [15] and touring

Radio drama

1995 Looking for Baby Jesus

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