Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2022: Katherine Rundell

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English - November 20, 2022 11:15 - 28 minutes - 26.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
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After winning the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2022 for her book ‘Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne’, Katherine Rundell sits down with Georgina Godwin. Raised in Zimbabwe and a fellow of Oxford’s All Souls College, Rundell is known for her award-winning children’s books, as well as the adult essay ‘Why You Should Read Children’s Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise’. She speaks to Georgina about ‘Super-Infinite’, a vivid biography of one of the world’s greatest writers of love poetry.

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