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Sarah Dunant

Sarah Dunant
Born (1950-08-08) 8 August 1950 (age 66)
London, England
Occupation Writer, broadcaster, critic

Sarah Dunant (born 8 August 1950) is a novelist, journalist, broadcaster and critic. She was a founding vice patron of the Orange Prize for women's fiction, sits on the editorial board of the Royal Academy magazine, and reviews for The Times, The Guardian, and The New York Times. She teaches biennially at Washington University in St. Louis in its Renaissance studies course. She is also a creative writing fellow at Oxford Brookes University. She has two daughters and lives in London and Florence.

Dunant was born and grew up in London, the daughter of David Dunant, a Welsh airline steward and later manager at British Airways, and his French wife Estelle, who was brought up in Bangalore, India.

She was educated at the local girls grammar school, Godolphin and Latymer. From there she won a place at Newnham College, Cambridge where she read history and was involved in theatre and Footlights. After graduation and a brief spell earning an Equity Card in the acting profession, she moved to Tokyo, where she was an English teacher and nightclub hostess for six months, before travelling home through South East Asia.

Back in London she worked for two years at BBC Radio 4, producing its then arts magazine Kaleidoscope, before travelling again, this time overland through North, Central and South America, a trip that became research material for her first solo novel Snow Storms in Hot Climate (1988) a thriller about the early cocaine trade in Colombia *(1)


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