Marina Warner

Marina Warner's study of the Arabian Nights, Stranger Magic (211) won the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism and the Sheikh Zayed Book Award in 213; in 215 she was awarded the Holberg Prize in the Arts and Humanities and was made DBE. She is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Birkbeck College, a Fellow of the British Academy and President of the Royal Society of Literature.