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Catullus bedspread by daisy dunn
Daisy Dunn (born 1987) is a classicist, author, journalist and critic.
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Biography
Dunn was born in London and attended Ibstock Place School and, from the age of 16, The Lady Eleanor Holles School in Hampton, Middlesex. 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. She received a PhD in Classics and Art History from University College London in 2013. She has published two books on the Latin love poet Catullus. Both were launched at Peter Harrington Rare Books in Mayfair, London in January 2016. At Bath Literature Festival in 2016, Dunn compared Catullus to a 'Hoxton hipster'. Her translation of one of Catullus' expletive words was the subject of some controversy in May 2016, resulting in a series of letters in The Times Literary Supplement and an article in The Times. Dunn reviews books for the The Times, Evening Standard, and Literary Review. In 2015 she was longlisted for the international Notting Hill Editions Essay Prize. In an article in The Guardian in February 2016, historian Simon Schama included Daisy Dunn in his list of leading female historians.
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
