In Super-Infinite, Katherine Rundell shows us the many sides of Donne’s extraordinary life, his obsessions, his blazing words, and his tempestuous Elizabethan times – unveiling Donne as the most remarkable mind and as a lesson in living. He was a scholar of law, a sea adventurer, an MP, a priest, the Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral – and perhaps the greatest love poet in the history of the English language. Location South East Date Time 6:00 pm About the Event Novelist and academic, Katherine Rundell, talks about her biography of the poet John Donne. Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, Donne was incapable of being just one thing. Super-infinite: The Transformations of John Donne Novelist and academic, Katherine Rundell, talks about her biography of the poet John Donne. 11 Early life edit Rundell was born in Kent, 12 England in 1987 13 and spent ten years in Harare, Zimbabwe, where her father was a diplomat. ‘Stylish, scholarly and gripping.’ Rose Tremain Her 2022 book Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, making her the youngest ever winner of the award. **Shortlisted for the Slightly Foxed First Biography Prize 2023**
**Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize for Non-Fiction 2023** **Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2023**
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