Marina Warner
Stories come from the past but speak to the present, and I have found that I need to write stories as well as deconstruct them and place them in historical contexts, because I myself love reading works of imagination, and I would like to join the conversation with admired predecessors, who range from Apuleius to Virginia Woolf, Italo Calvino, and Angela Carter.”
Recent Diary Entries
7 June 2026, JLF London at the British Library
Marina is taking part in two events on Sunday 7 June at Jaipur Literature Festival London, which are happening in the British Library: The Shelter of Stories with Samantha Ellis and Namita Gokhale, in conversation with Somnath Batabyal 12.30-1.3 …
EXPeditions – Sanctuary: Ways of Telling, Ways of Dwelling, in conversation with Lisa Appignanesi
Listen to Marina in conversation with Lisa Appignanesi about Sanctuary: Ways of Telling, Ways of Dwelling: Marina Warner takes the idea of Sanctuary into an ethical and imaginative register and consider it as a set of images, places, stories, as well a …
5 May 2026 – The Country of Words, Birkbeck Arts Week event + workshop
Julia Bell’s new book, Between the Lines, explores the creative writing class from personal experience of its dynamics. Marina Warner’s recent study, Sanctuary: Ways of Telling, Ways of Dwelling, proposes that imaginative story-making can build home an …