Daisy Dunn

Daisy Dunn (age unknown) is a classicist, author, journalist and critic.

Biography

Daisy Dunn attended Ibstock Place School and The Lady Eleanor Holles School in Hampton, Middlesex.[1] She read Classics at St Hilda's College, Oxford, and won a scholarship to study for an MA in the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute, London.[2][3] She was awarded a PhD in Classics and Art History from University College London.[4][5] She has published two books on the Latin love poet Catullus.[6][7] Both were launched at Peter Harrington Rare Books in Mayfair, London (date unknown).[8] At Bath Literature Festival in 2016, Dunn compared Catullus to a 'Hoxton hipster'.[9] Her translation of one of Catullus' expletive words resulted in a series of letters in The Times Literary Supplement and an article in The Times.[10][11] Dunn reviews books for the The Times,[12] Evening Standard,[13] and Literary Review[14]. Her work was once long-listed for the international Notting Hill Editions Essay Prize.[15] In an article in The Guardian Simon Schama included Daisy Dunn in his list of leading female historians.[16]

Works

Dunn is the author of the following books:

Catullus' Bedspread: The Life of Rome's Most Erotic Poet (HarperCollins, 2016) (UK Hardback) ISBN 978-0007554331

Catullus' Bedspread: The Life of Rome's Most Erotic Poet (Harper Press, 2016) (US Hardback) ISBN 978-0062317025

The Poems of Catullus: A New Translation (HarperCollins, 2016) (UK Paperback) ISBN 978-0007582969

References

  1. ↑ Dunn, Daisy (14 March 2015). "Reading about your school is always a terrible idea". The Spectator. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  2. ↑ Dunn, Daisy (2016). Catullus' Bedspread: The Life of Rome's Most Erotic Poet. London, England: HarperCollins. p. 312. ISBN 978-0007554331.
  3. ↑ "Oxford University Department of Classics". www.classics.ox.ac.uk. University of Oxford. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  4. ↑ Dunn, Daisy (2016). Catullus' Bedspread: The Life of Rome's Most Erotic Poet. London: HarperCollins. p. 312. ISBN 978-0007554331.
  5. ↑ "University College London, Department of Greek and Latin". University College London, Department of Greek and Latin. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
  6. ↑ Madden, Chris (29 January 2016). "Boris Johnson and Tatler help author launch her debut books". Dorking and Leatherhead Advertiser. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
  7. ↑ "Tatler". www.tatler.com. 22 January 2016. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
  8. ↑ "Dunn's bash is all Greek to Boris". The Evening Standard, Londoner's Diary. 22 January 2016. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
  9. ↑ Clark, Nick (7 March 2016). "The Independent Bath Literature Festival". The Independent. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
  10. ↑ "Letters to the Editor". The Times Literary Supplement. 12 May 2016. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
  11. ↑ Kidd, Patrick (12 May 2016). "Feast of Filth". The Times, TMS Diary.
  12. ↑ ""The Black Prince of Florence - Review", The Times". April 16, 2016. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  13. ↑ ""The rise and fall of the house of Caesar", The Evening Standard". September 10, 2015. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  14. ↑ ""Power to the people"". Literary Review. November 2015. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  15. ↑ "Notting Hill Editions Essay Prize 2015 longlist". Notting Hill Editions. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  16. ↑ "'Big Books by blokes about battles': Why is history still written mainly by men?". The Guardian. 6 February 2016. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
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