Learn more about 5x15 events: 5x15stories. There are only two rules - no scripts and only 15 minutes each. Her book Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne, an 'unmissable' biography of the Renaissance poet, won the 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction.ĥx15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations. She has written for, among others, the London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, The New York Review of Books and The New York Times: mostly about books, though sometimes about night climbing, tightrope walking, and animals. Rundell is also the author of a book for adults, Why You Should Read Children’s Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise.
She writes, ‘Donne is the greatest writer of desire in the English language. W hen Katherine Rundell was growing up in Zimbabwe, her parents pinned a John Donne poem by the bathroom sink for their four children to read while they were brushing their teeth.
If Super-infinite is ultimately stronger on the thematic and literary than the historical Rundell’s evocations of court and international intrigue are gripping, but veer away from the book’s protagonist then its achievements are substantial enough to make any. Rundell is a children’s author who also specializes in Renaissance literature and makes the case that Donne should be as widely feted as William Shakespeare, his contemporary. Her bestselling books for children have been translated into more than thirty languages and have won multiple awards. In Rundell, Donne has an authoritative and sympathetic chronicler. Katherine Rundell is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.
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