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
3 December 2026, 7pm – LRB event with Celia Paul, on her book ‘Objects of Desire: An Artist in Venice’
Taking place at the London Review Bookshop (14 Bury Pl, London WC1A 2JL), this is a conversation between Celia Paul and Marina: In Objects of Desire Celia Paul, perhaps the most significant artist working in Britain today, records her artistic practice …
14 November 2026, Creative Folkestone Book Festival 2026: Shelter in an Unsettled World
‘From Thursday 12 to Sunday 22 November 2026, Folkestone will once again become a town alive with storytelling.’ What does it mean to offer refuge – and who gets to belong? In this major cultural conversation, acclaimed writer, mythographer and histori …
20 years of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award
Marina joined the 154th episode of the podcast BULAQ to discuss what has (and hasn’t) changed in the last twenty years in Arabic literature, publishing and translation. The episode is made to mark 20 years of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award, which Marina r …