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
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 …
17 April 2026, discussing ‘Sanctuary’, Barnsbury Book Festival, 3.30 – 4.30pm
Marina Warner’s numerous books, stories and essays explore myth, storytelling, history and society. In Sanctuary she investigates ideas of refuge, hospitality and belonging, and how storytelling helps people endure and understand crisis. She will be di …
30 March 2026, EXPeditions Book Club #2, 7-8pm (online)
Marina Warner will join us and answer your questions about her latest book SANCTUARY, in conversation with Lisa Appignanesi. Sanctuary is an ancient right. It both promises and is a haven. It is a place of refuge and of freedom from harm. With bril …