Marina Warner
Marina Warner writes fiction and cultural history, with a special focus on myths and fairy tales and the role of women. She is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Birkbeck College, and a Distinguished Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. She was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 2005, awarded the Holberg Prize in the Arts and Humanities in 2015, and given a World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award two years later. From 2017-2021, she was the first woman to be president of the Royal Society of Literature.