Sanctuary - Warner, Marina
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Sanctuary is an ancient right. But what does it mean today? Drawing on a lifetime of engagement with literature, myth, history and tradition from different cultures, Marina Warner's Sanctuary is an ambitious attempt to grapple with the sharpest questions that we are facing in today's world of global turmoil.

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Sanctuary is an ancient right. But what does it mean today? Drawing on a lifetime of engagement with literature, myth, history and tradition from different cultures, Marina Warner's Sanctuary is an ambitious attempt to grapple with the sharpest questions that we are facing in today's world of global turmoil.
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Marina Warner is a writer of fiction and cultural history and has published many award-winning works, including Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and Cult of the Virgin Mary, Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism, Monuments & Maidens, critical studies of fairy tales and the thousand and one nights ( Stranger Magic) and a memoir, Inventory of a Life Mislaid,about her parents' life in Cairo during the 1950s. She read French and Italian at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and served as President of the Royal Society of Literature (2017-21). In 2015 she was awarded the Holberg Prize in the Arts and Humanities. The same year she was made DBE and, in 2022, a Companion of Honour. She is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Birkbeck and a Distinguished Fellow at All Souls, Oxford. She lives in London