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Profile of Marina Warner
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Marina Warner |
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9th November 1946 |
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London, England, UK |
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Marina Warner (born 21st November 1946) is a British writer, known as a novelist and short story writer, and also for many non-fiction books relating in various ways to feminism and myth.
She was born in London to an English father and Italian mother. She was brought up in Cairo, Brussels and in Berkshire, England, and studied at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She was at one time married to William Shawcross, with whom she had a son Conrad Shawcross.
Her first book was the controversial Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary, which was a devastating critique of Catholic adoration of the Virgin Mary, which Warner savaged as both anti-Christian and anti-feminist. It was followed by Monuments & Maidens: the allegory of the female form and Joan of Arc: the image of female heroism.
Her novel The Lost Father was on the Booker Prize shortlist in 1988; the non-fiction From the Beast to the Blonde won a Mythopoeic Award in 1996. Her other novels include The Leto Bundle, and Indigo.
She gave the 1994 Reith Lectures, Managing Monsters.
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