![]() ![]() She is currently working on her novel (working title, Inventory of a Life Mislaid), a story inspired by her father’s bookshop in the 1950s in Cairo. Warner is, to say the very least, prolific and in addition to her many roles, has also found time (from god knows where) to agree to chair the Man Booker International Prize in 2015. She gave the BBC’s Reith Lectures in 1994 her Clarendon Lectures (2000) are published as Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds. She is currently a trustee of The National Portrait Gallery and patron of Hosking Houses Trust, Reprieve, The Society for Storytelling and Bloodaxe Poetry Books. She has been President of the British Comparative Literature Association (BCLA) since 2010 and was elected for a two-year Fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford in 2013. ![]() ![]() She has been elected a fellow of the British Academy in 2005, and was made a CBE for services to literature in 2008. Along with being a novelist, critic and short-story writer, she also happens to be Professor in the Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex in which she teaches an undergraduate course on the Transformation of Fairytale as well as an MA courses in Creative Writing, one on The Tale, and another on psycho-geographical writing, Memory Maps. It was with a mixture of trepidation and a kind of amazed star shock that I approach Marina Warner. Marina Warner speaks to TMO about fairy tales, the paradox of the female voice and why we can never experience the picture of a fairy tale from its text. ![]()
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