Marina Warner
Diary
Forms of Enchantment due in paperback in March 2024!
23/01/24Marina’s anthology of essays on artists, Forms of Enchantment is due in paperback from 7 March. Here is a sneak peek of the paperback cover, adorned with a piece (Moth, 1996) by Kiki Smith:
Fairy Tales for the Penguin podcast
09/01/24‘Fairy Tales with the historian and mythographer Marina Warner: Charles Perrault and Angela Carter’ On the Road with Penguin Classics, Penguin podcast hosted by writer Henry Eliot The podcast is now available for free on all platforms, including Apple …
2024 Robert B. Silvers Prize for Literary Criticism
05/01/24Marina has been awarded the Robert B. Silvers Prize for Literary Criticism, alongside Jennifer Wilson, a contributing writer at The New Yorker. The Robert B. Silvers Prize for Literary Criticism, recognizes achievement in long-form literary criticism a …
“Viral Spiral: Multiple Shape-shifting from Ovid to Covid”, Thursday 12 October 2023, 6.00pm GMT
19/09/23Marina is giving the inaugural lecture for the Centre for Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London. In her lecture, “Viral Spiral: Multiple Shape-shifting from Ovid to Covid”, Marina will explore stories of multiple transformations in …
Public discussion: “How does self-censorship work for a writer?”, European Alliance of Academies Conference, 26 August
03/08/23Marina is taking part in a conference on Freedom of Artistic Expression in Literature in the 21st Century, organised by the European Alliance of Academies, which is taking place 26-27th August, at Homerton College, Cambridge. The public discussion Mari …
‘Inventory of a Life Mislaid’ included in LRB’s One Hundred Books for the Next Twenty Years
28/07/23Inventory of a Life Mislaid was selected by Ali Smith as one of the LRB’s One Hundred Books for the Next Twenty Years One Hundred Books for the Next Twenty Years marks London Review Bookshop’s twentieth anniversary. The LRB invited twenty writers to ch …
Travelling Tales: Kalīlah wa-Dimnah and the Animal Fable
25/07/23Marina’s most recent essay is out on Public Domain Review now! It is expanded and adapted from her foreword to the English edition of Kalīlah and Dimnah: Fables of Virtue and Vice, translated by Michael Fishbein and James E. Montgomery (New York: NYU P …
An Evening of Discovery and Illumination – British Library, 13 July
03/07/23This celebratory event showcases a variety of precious items, from writers’ archives to single manuscripts, rare books and even rarer personal letters, that have been acquired by the British Library over the last five years. Marina is chair of the Brit …
Dandelions, by Thea Lenarduzzi – in conversation! 10 July, 6.30pm
03/07/23Thea Lenarduzzi belongs in two worlds and two languages, and in her unusual, wide-ranging and beautiful memoir Dandelions, she meditates on the divisions and the gifts of her doubled identity. The flower that gives her her title is an emblem of diaspor …
Temporale excerpt, The New York Review, 14th April 2023
17/04/23An edited excerpt from Marina’s recent book Temporale for The Cahiers Series is now available to read on The New York Review website, here.