Katherine Rundell wins the 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
Katherine Rundell has won this year's Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction for her recent work, Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne. Rundell's winning work explores the many unknown aspects of the life of poet John Donne. The Baillie Gifford Prize is the UK’s most prestigious award for nonfiction writing and as the winner Rundell will receive £50,000 along with the £1,000 given to each of the shortlisted authors.
Caroline Sanderson, chair of judges, says: ‘Super-Infinite, Katherine Rundell’s glorious celebration of the life and work of the poet John Donne is our unanimous winner of the 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. Exquisitely rendered, its passion, playfulness and sparkling prose seduced all of us. Rundell makes an irresistible case for Donne’s work to be widely read 400 years later, for all the electric joy and love it expresses. And in so doing, she gives us a myriad reasons why poetry – why the arts – matter.’
