Marina Warner

Daniela Pietra Corona (Independent Scholar - Europe)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.09: English Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary Britain , 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Gina Lyle (University of Glasgow), Graham MacPhee (University of Manchester), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Jenni Ramone (The Nottingham Trent University)

Dates

Born 9 Nov 1946
Activity 1988-ongoing

Places

Born in England
Active in England

Activities

Primary

Essayist
Literary Critic/ Historian
Novelist
Story-writer

Resources

Warner's Works

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Marina Warner is one of the foremost contemporary English intellectuals, writers and essayists, author of, among others, the novels

The Lost Father

(1982),

Indigo, or Mapping the Waters

and

The Leto Bundle

(2001), and the collection of short stories

The Mermaids in the Basement

(1993). Her essayistic and critical work has appeared in

The London Review of Books

The Times Literary Supplement

The New York Times Books Review

and

Lettre Internationale

, to name but a few. She was awarded the

Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

(France) in 2000. She has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature since 1985 and an honorary fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford; and has taught at prestigious institutions and universities, including the Getty Center, the universities of Oxford,…

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Citation: Corona, Daniela Pietra. "Marina Warner". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 10 February 2009 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4604, accessed 19 April 2024.]

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