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 – 26 June 2026, Stories in Transit at Essex Book Festival!
The next Stories in Transit workshop is taking place on Friday 26 June, at St Leonard-at-the-Hythe Church (Hythe Hill Colchester, Essex CO1 2NP), 12-5pm, as part of the 2026 Essex Book Festival. Stories in Transit is an ongoing workshop series, invitin …
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 …