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Helen Simpson


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Helen Simpson is an English novelist and short story writer. She was born in 1959 in Bristol, in the West of England, and went to a girls' school. She worked at Vogue for five years before her success in writing short stories meant she could afford to leave and concentrate full-time on her writing. Her first collection, Four Bare Legs in a Bed and Other Stories, won the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award while her book Hey Yeah Right Get A Life, a series of interlinked stories, won the Hawthornden Prize.
 


Genres: Literary Fiction
 
Collections
   Four Bare Legs in a Bed (1990)
   Unguarded Hours (1990) (with Ruth Rendell)
   Dear George (1995)
   Hey Yeah Right Get a Life (2000)
     aka Getting a Life
   Constitutional (2005)
   In the Driver's Seat (2007)
   In-flight Entertainment (2010)
   I'm with the Bears (2011) (with others)
   A Bunch of Fives (2012)
   Cockfosters (2015)
   Same Same but Different (2021) (with others)
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Series contributed to
Ox-Tales
   Ox-Tales:Air (2009) (with others)
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Books containing stories by Helen Simpson
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Bodies from the Library 2 (2019)
(Bodies from the Library, book 2)
edited by
Tony Medawar
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Head Land (2016)
10 Years of the Edge Hill Short Story Prize
edited by
Rodge Glass
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Ghost (2015)
100 Stories to Read with the Lights On
edited by
Louise Welsh

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Awards
1993 Granta Best of Young British Novelists
1991 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award : Four Bare Legs in a Bed: And Other Stories

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