from 2004 until her resignation in 2014. She took up a chair in English and Creative Writing at Birkbeck College, University of London, in September 2014. She is a quondam fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and was chair of the judges of the Man Booker International Prize 2015. Warner was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to higher education and literary scholarship. In 2015–16, she was the Weidenfeld Visiting Professor of European Comparative Literature in St Anne's College, Oxford, part of the Humanitas Programme. In March 2017, Warner was elected as the Royal Society of Literature's 19th—and first female—president, succeeding Colin Thubron in the post. She was appointed Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) in the 2022 Birthday Honours for services to the humanities. Honours and awards 1984: Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature 1986: Fawcett Society Book Prize for Monuments and Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form 1988: Booker Prize for Fiction (shortlist) for The Lost Father 1989: Commonwealth Writers Prize (Eurasia Region, Best Book) for The Lost Father 1989: PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award for The Lost Father 1996: Mythopoeic Award for From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers 1999: Katharine Briggs Folklore Award for No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock 2000: Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France) 2000: Rose Mary Crawshay Prize for English Literature for No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock 2005: Commendatore dell' Ordine della Stella di Solidarieta (Italy) 2005: Elected Fellow of the British Academy 2008: Appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) 2012: National Book Critics Circle Award (Criticism) for Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights 2013: Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism for Stranger Magic 2013: Sheikh Zayed Book Award for Arab Culture in Non-Arabic Languages for Stranger Magic 2013: All Souls College, Oxford Two-Year Fellowship 2013: Mansfield College, Oxford, Honorary Fellow 2013: St Cross College, Oxford, Honorary Fellow 2015: Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE), for services to higher education and literary scholarship 2015: Holberg Prize, for "her work on the analysis of stories and myths and how they reflect their time and place" 2017-2021: Elected president of the Royal Society of Literature 2017: British Academy Medal "for