Putney High School
Putney Ideas Exchange (PIE) presents Sarah Dunant
Sarah Dunant, bestselling author, radio and TV presenter visited Putney High School to talk to PIE. An enthralled audience heard her speak about her career as an author.
Sarah Dunant was born in 1950, and was educated in Hammersmith, London, before reading History at Newnham College, Cambridge, after which she spent a substantial amount of time travelling the globe. On her return, she worked as an actress and began working as a producer for BBC Radio in 1974. A former presenter of both Radio 4's 'Woman's Hour' and BBC Television's 'The Late Show' which included, until 1997, the annual broadcast of the Booker Prize for Fiction ceremony, she is the author of several novels.
She is the creator of private investigator Hannah Wolfe, featured in Birth Marks (1991), Fatlands (1993), winner of a Crime Writers' Association Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction, and Under My Skin (1995). She is a patron of the Orange Prize for Fiction and reviews for various newspapers and magazines including The Times and The Observer, and is a regular presenter of BBC Radio 3's 'Night Waves'. Her novels include Transgressions (1997) and Mapping the Edge (1999), both of which are being adapted as films.
Sarah Dunant lives in London and Florence. Her latest novels, The Birth of Venus (2003), a tale of art, passion, politics and danger, and her most recent book, In the Company of the Courtesan (2006), are set in Renaissance Italy.
