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
POSTPONED “Viral Spiral: Multiple Shape-shifting from Ovid to Covid”, Thursday 19 January 2023, 6.00pm GMT
We are sorry that due to unforeseen circumstances, Marina’s lecture has been postponed to a date to be confirmed. Marina is giving the inaugural lecture for the Centre for Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London. In her lecture, “Vir …
The Sarah Hughes Trust Lecture, Friday 2 December
Friday 2 December, The Sarah Hughes Trust Lecture, 6-9pm, Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole St, London W1G 0AE. Join Marina as she gives the Sarah Hughes Lecture, discussing the role of mythology and writing as well as the influence of art on creat …
Inside the Cauldron – Kickstarter Campaign! 5 days to go
83% funded, with 5 days to go! Inside the Cauldron is a short non-profit film based on an unpublished essay by the British surrealist artist Leonora Carrington [1917-2011]. Carrington gave a copy to Marina Warner, who entrusted it to the filmmakers in …