Daisy Dunn Background and Education
Daisy Florence Dunn (born 1987) is a classicist and author from England. Daisy Dunn was born in London and went to Ibstock Place School in Southwest London before attending The Lady Eleanor Holles School in Hampton. She studied Classics at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, and won a scholarship to the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, where she specialized in Titian, Venice, and Renaissance Europe.
She received a PhD in Classics and Art History from University College London in 2013 for her thesis on ekphrasis in Greek and Latin poetry and sixteenth-century Italian painting. Her essay “An Unlikely Friendship” was long-listed for the international Notting Hill Editions Prize in 2015.
Career
Her first two books, a biography of the Latin love poet Catullus and a new translation of his poems, were published in 2016. Catullus’ Bedspread, the biography, received endorsements from Boris Johnson, Robert Harris, and Tom Holland, and was described as a “superb portrait” in The Sunday Times.
Dunn’s translation of one of Catullus’ expletives resulted in a series of letters and an article in The Times Literary Supplement. Simon Schama included Dunn on his list of leading female historians in a 2016 Guardian article.
In the Shadow Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny, Dunn’s 2019 dual biography of Pliny the Elder and Pliny the Younger, published as The Shadow of Vesuvius in the US, was a New York Times Editor’s Choice, a Waterstones Best History Book of 2019, and a Book of the Year in several publications. The Sunday Times interviewed Dunn ahead of the film’s release, as did Dan Snow for his podcast HistoryHit.
Dunn also released an anthology of ancient stories in English translation in 2019, Of Gods and Men: 100 Stories from Ancient Greece and Rome, for which she was interviewed on TalkRadio by Paul Ross. A month later, she published Homer, the first book in a new “expert” series of Ladybird books.
Dunn is a regular commentator, critic, and columnist for publications such as The Spectator, The Daily Telegraph, and Literary Review. She has contributed to BBC Radio 4, BBC World Service, TalkRadio, BBC.com (Culture), and BBC 2, where she competed in the 2016 Christmas University Challenge for notable alumni, winning the series. She presented two short films on Latin phrases and Ancient Wisdom for BBC Ideas in 2018 and 2019.
Dunn received the Classical Association Prize in 2020, which recognizes efforts to bring the classics to the public’s attention.
In March 2022, Dunn’s sixth book, Not Far From Brideshead: Oxford Between the Wars, a group biography of classicists Maurice Bowra, E. R. Dodds, and Gilbert Murray, was released. In The Times, Laura Freeman wrote of Dunn’s “gift for making the arcane accessible and the forbidding more friendly” and the book as being “a love letter to learning”. It was described as “lucid, agile, juicy, nuanced” by Leo Robson in the New Statesman.
Relationship
Daisy Dunn is currently unattached. She is not in a relationship. We don’t know much about She’s previous relationships or engagements. She has no children, according to our records.
Net Worth
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Social Media
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