{"id":126336,"date":"2022-12-03T13:07:48","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T07:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=126336"},"modified":"2022-12-03T13:10:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T07:40:14","slug":"a-biography-of-english-poet-john-donne-wins-uk-nonfiction-book-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/a-biography-of-english-poet-john-donne-wins-uk-nonfiction-book-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"A biography of English poet John Donne wins UK nonfiction book prize"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A biography of English poet John Donne wins UK nonfiction book prize:<\/strong> At a ceremony in London, British writer Katherine Rundell’s book “Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne” was chosen the winner of the 50,000 pound ($59,000) Baillie Gifford Prize. Rundell’s book was chosen unanimously by the six judges from among 362 submissions. The book argues that Donne, best known four centuries after his death for a poem that begins \u201cNo man is an island\u201d \u2013 is \u201ca writer perhaps as great as Shakespeare, and a writer we should all read for his writing on love, sex and death.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notably: Last year’s winner was Patrick Radden Keefe’s “Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty,” an expose of the family responsible for the opioid epidemic in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

December 2022 Current Affairs Quiz<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the Baillie Gifford Prize:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Baillie Gifford Prize recognizes English-language books from any country in current affairs, history, politics, science, sport, travel, biography, autobiography and the arts. The other finalists were Caroline Elkins\u2019 \u201cLegacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire;\u201d Sally Hayden\u2019s \u201cMy Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World\u2019s Deadliest Migration Route;\u201d Jonathan Freedland\u2019s \u201cThe Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World;\u201d Anna Keay\u2019s \u201cThe Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown;\u201d and Polly Morland\u2019s \u201cA Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor\u2019s Story.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A biography of English poet John Donne wins UK nonfiction book prize: At a ceremony in London, British writer Katherine Rundell’s book “Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne” was chosen the winner of the 50,000 pound ($59,000) Baillie Gifford Prize. Rundell’s book was chosen unanimously by the six judges from among 362 submissions. The book […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":126337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4992],"tags":[92],"class_list":["post-126336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-december-2022","tag-awards-prizes-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126338,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126336\/revisions\/126338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}