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The past is never dead, it isn’t even past

Daria Santini was born in Rome and educated in Italy and Germany. Her most recent books – The Exiles. Actors, Artists and Writers Who Fled the Nazis for London (Bloomsbury 2019) and A Woman Named Edith. Émigré, Photographer, Secret Agent: the Extraordinary Life of Edith Tudor Hart (Yale University Press 2026) – move beyond her earlier academic work to explore biography and cultural history in a wider, more personal register.
She holds a PhD in German Literature from the University of Pisa, was an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Munich, and taught German Language and Literature at the University of Oxford (St. Hilda’s and Magdalen Colleges) for fifteen years until 2010. She now lives between London and Puglia, Southern Italy, and works as an independent scholar and writer.
Daria’s work defies easy categorisation. A literary scholar by training, she has developed a deep passion for biography and cultural history, and her writing is marked by meticulous research, stylistic clarity and a sure narrative instinct.
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