Marina Warner
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Warner began her career as a staff writer for The Daily Telegraph, before working as Vogue’s features editor from 1969 until 1972.
Her first book was The Dragon Empress: The Life and Times of Tz'u-hsi, Empress Dowager of China, 1835–1908 (1972), followed by the controversial Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary (1976), a provocative study of Roman Catholic veneration of the Virgin Mary. These were followed by Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism (1981) and Monuments & Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form (1985).
Warner's novel The Lost Father was on the Booker Prize shortlist in 1988. Her non-fiction book From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers won a Mythopoeic Award in 1996. The companion study of the male terror figure (from ancient myth and folklore to modern obsessions), No Go the Bogeyman: On Scaring, Lulling, and Making Mock, was published in 2000 and won the British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay Prize that year. Warner's other novels include The Leto Bundle (2001) and Indigo (1992). Her book Phantasmagoria (2006) traces the ways in which "the spirit" has been represented across different mediums, from waxworks to cinema.
In December 2012, she presented a programme on BBC Radio Four about the Brothers Grimm. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1984. In 1994 she became only the second woman to deliver the BBC's Reith Lectures, published as Managing Monsters: Six Myths of Our Time, in which she gave an analysis of the workings of myth in contemporary society, with emphasis on politics and entertainment.
Warner received an honorary doctorate (DLitt) from the University of Oxford on 21 June 2006, and also holds honorary degrees from the universities of Exeter (1995), York (1997) and St Andrews (1998), and honorary doctorates from Sheffield Hallam University (1995), the University of North London (1997), the Tavistock Institute (University of East London; 1999), Oxford University (2002), the Royal College of Art (2004), University of Kent (2005), the University of Leicester (2006), and King's College London (2009).
She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2008 Queen's Birthday Honours for services to literature.
She was a professor in the Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex from 2004 until her resignation in 2014. She took up a chair in English and Creative Writing at Birkbeck College, University of London, in September 2014. She is a quondam fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and was chair of the judges of the Man Booker International Prize 2015.
Warner was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to higher education and literary scholarship.
In 2015–16, she was the Weidenfeld Visiting Professor of European Comparative Literature in St Anne's College, Oxford, part of the Humanitas Programme.
In March 2017, Warner was elected as the Royal Society of Literature's 19th—and first female—president, succeeding Colin Thubron in the post.
She was appointed Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) in the 2022 Birthday Honours for services to the humanities.
- 1984: Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
- 1986: Fawcett Society Book Prize for Monuments and Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form
- 1988: Booker Prize for Fiction (shortlist) for The Lost Father
- 1989: Commonwealth Writers Prize (Eurasia Region, Best Book) for The Lost Father
- 1989: PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award for The Lost Father
- 1996: Mythopoeic Award for From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers
- 1999: Katharine Briggs Folklore Award for No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock
- 2000: Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France)
- 2000: Rose Mary Crawshay Prize for English Literature for No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock
- 2005: Commendatore dell' Ordine della Stella di Solidarieta (Italy)
- 2005: Elected Fellow of the British Academy
- 2008: Appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
- 2012: National Book Critics Circle Award (Criticism) for Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights
- 2013: Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism for Stranger Magic
- 2013: Sheikh Zayed Book Award for Arab Culture in Non-Arabic Languages for Stranger Magic
- 2013: All Souls College, Oxford Two-Year Fellowship
- 2013: Mansfield College, Oxford, Honorary Fellow
- 2013: St Cross College, Oxford, Honorary Fellow
- 2015: Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE), for services to higher education and literary scholarship
- 2015: Holberg Prize, for "her work on the analysis of stories and myths and how they reflect their time and place"
- 2017-2021: Elected president of the Royal Society of Literature
- 2017: British Academy Medal "for lifetime achievement"
- 2017: World Fantasy Award "for lifetime achievement"
- 2022: Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour, for services to the humanities.
