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
My Parish Drawings
Read Marina’s piece for Drawing Matter’s online ‘Texts’, in which she talks about a series of drawings she bought decades ago by Henry William Parish. They date from the 1790s and document his time on an expedition to China: During the long sea voyage, …
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 …