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Marina Warner
Marina Warner is a novelist, short story writer, historian and mythographer, and at present, professor of English and Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London. Her critical and historical books and essays explore figures in myth and fairy tale, such as the Virgin Mary and Joan of Arc and more recently she has concentrated on fairy tales, including The Arabian Nights. She was born in London, to an Italian mother and an English father who was a bookseller, and after primary schools in Cairo and Brussels, she was educated at St Mary’s Convent, Ascot, and then read French and Italian as an undergraduate at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, of which she is now an honorary fellow. She has received numerous honours including DBE (2015) and the Holberg Prize (2015); in 2005, she was elected a fellow of the British Academy and was made a CBE for services to literature in 2008. She was President of the British Comparative Literature Association in 2010–16 and became President of the Royal Society of Literature in 2017; she was elected a fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, in 2019.
Contact: All Souls College, Oxford University, Oxford, OX1 4AL, UK.