Marina Warner

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Marina Warner at the award ceremony of the Holberg Prize (2015)

Dame Marina Sarah Warner (born November 9, 1946 in London ) is a British literary scholar and writer.

Life

Marina Warner grew up as the daughter of an Italian mother and an English father in Cairo and Brussels and attended St Mary's School in Ascot , Berkshire . She studied French and Italian at Lady Margaret Hall , Oxford . She was married to William Shawcross for ten years and they have the son Conrad Shawcross .

In 1972 her first book was a study on the Chinese politician Tz'u-hsi . She wrote other studies on female figures like the Virgin Mary and Joan of Arc . She then wrote a number of children's books. Her novel The Lost Father was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 1988 , and she has since written other novels. Warner dealt with literary studies on mythological cultural topics, in 1996 she received the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies for her study From the Beast to the Blonde . In 2010 she wrote a study on Grimm's Fairy Tales .

She has been an elected member of the Royal Society of Literature since 1984, a Fellow of the British Academy since 2005 , and Chair of the British Comparative Literature Association since 2010 .

Warner became CBE in 2008 and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 2015. Since 2000 she has been Chevalier des Ordre des Arts et des Lettres .

Warner received the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize in 2000. For Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights , she received the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2012 and the Holberg Prize in 2015. In 2015 she chaired the Man Booker International Prize . In 2016 she was elected a member of the Academia Europaea .

In 2014, after ten years of teaching in the Department of Literature, Film and Theater Studies at the University of Essex , she resigned because she did not want to agree to the for-profit change in higher education in the UK. Warner justified this step in a contribution to the London Review of Books . She has since taught English and Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London . In 2017 she became the first woman to be appointed President of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2017 she received the World Fantasy Award for her life's work.

Fonts (selection)

  • Fly Away Home: Stories . Salt Publishing, 2015
  • Once Upon A Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014 (German: Once Upon a Time: The Magic of Fairy Tales . Reclam, 2017. Translated by Holger Hanowell).
  • with Philip F. Kennedy (Ed.): Scheherazade's Children. Global Encounters with the Arabian Nights . New York University Press, New York 2013
  • Stranger Magic: Charmed States & The Arabian Nights . Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA 2012
  • Phantasmagoria . Oxford University Press, 2006
  • Signs & Wonders: Essays on Literature and Culture . Chatto & Windus, 2003
  • Fantastic metamorphoses, other worlds: ways of telling the self . Clarendon lectures in English 2001. Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford 2004
  • No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock . Chatto & Windus, 1998
  • Managing Monsters: Six Myths of Our Time Reith Lectures. Vintage, 1994
    • Monsters, savages, innocent angels: myths we live with . Translation Claudia Preuschoft. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1996
  • L'Atalante . BFI Publishing, London 1993
  • Indigo or, mapping the waters . Chatto & Windus, 1992
    • Indigo or the Measurement of Waters: Roman . Translation by Sabine Hedinger . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1994
  • The Lost Father . Chatto & Windus, 1988
    • The lost father: Roman . Translation Claudia Preuschoft. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1990
  • Monuments and Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form . Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 1985
    • In female form: the embodiment of the true, the good and the beautiful . Translation Claudia Preuschoft. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1989
  • Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism . Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 1981
  • The Impossible Day . Methuen, 1981
    • Konrad's impossible day: a completely impossible story . Translation Franz Martin. Betz, Munich 1982
  • The Impossible Night . Methuen, 1981
    • Konrad's impossible night: a completely impossible story . Translation by Franz Martin.Betz, Munich 1982
  • Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary . Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 1976
    • Mary: birth, triumph, return of a myth? . Translation by Trikont-Dianus, Munich 1982
  • The Dragon Empress: Life and Times of Tz'u-hsi 1835-1908 . Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 1972
    • The empress on the dragon throne. The life and world of the Chinese dowager empress Tz'u-hsi. 1835-1908. Translation by Klaus Flessel. Ploetz, Würzburg 1974

literature

  • Laurence Coupe: Marina Warner . Northcote / British Council, Tavistock 2006
  • Tobias Döring: Chains of Memory: English-Caribbean Cross-Currents in Marina Warner's Indigo and David Dabydeen's Turner , in: Wolfgang Klooss (Ed.): Across the Lines. Intertextuality and Transcultural Communication in the New Literatures in English . Amsterdam, Atlanta 1998, pp. 191-204

Web links

Commons : Marina Warner  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jonathan Brown: Marina Warner compares UK university managers to 'Chinese communist enforcers' , The Independent , September 3, 2014
  2. ^ Professor Marina Warner elected first female President of the Royal Society of Literature. Birbeck University, April 6, 2017, accessed April 8, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Warner, Marina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Warner, Marina Sarah
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British literary historian and writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH London