Writers & Books

Another great collection of fairy tales to consider reading is: Tales of the German Imagination from the Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann (Penguin Classics), edited and translated by Peter Wortsman.

Marina Warner writes fiction and cultural history. Her books include From the Beast to the Blonde (l994), the novels Indigo (l992) and The Leto Bundle (2000), and Stranger Magic: Charmed States and The Arabian Nights (2011). She has curated exhibitions, including The Inner Eye (l996), Metamorphing (2002-3) and Only Make-Believe: Ways of Playing (2005). Her essays on art will be collected in Art & Enchantment (forthcoming). In 2015, she was awarded the Holberg Prize in the Arts and Humanities. She is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Birkbeck College, a Fellow of the British Academy and President of the Royal Society of Literature.