I didn’t wear shoes, and there was none of the teenage culture that exists in Europe. "In Zimbabwe, school ended every day at 1 o’clock. When she was 14 years old, her family moved to Brussels Rundell later told Newsweek 's Tim de Lisle that it was a culture shock, saying: Rundell was born in Kent, England in 1987 and spent ten years in Harare, Zimbabwe, where her father was a diplomat. Her 2022 book Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, making her the youngest ever winner of the award. Rundell's other books include The Girl Savage (2011), released in 2014 in a slightly revised form as Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms in the United States, where it was the winner of the 2015 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for fiction, The Wolf Wilder (2015), and The Explorer (2017), winner of the children's book prize at the 2017 Costa Book Awards. She is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and has appeared as an expert guest on BBC Radio 4 programmes including Start the Week, Poetry Please, Seriously. She is the author of Rooftoppers, which in 2015 won both the overall Waterstones Children's Book Prize and the Blue Peter Book Award for Best Story, and was short-listed for the Carnegie Medal. Katherine Rundell (born 1987) is an English author and academic. Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne (2022)
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