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Lisa Appignanesi

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born

January 04, 1946 in Łódź, Poland

gender

female

website

http://lisaappignanesi.com/

genre

Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction

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Lisa Appignanesi (born Elsbieta Borenztejn) is a writer and novelist of Polish-Jewish origin.

She was raised in Paris, France and in Montreal, Canada. She graduated from McGill University with a B.A. degree in 1966 and her M.A. the following year. During 1970-71 she was a staff writer for the Centre for Community Research in New York City and is a former University of Essex lecturer in European Studies. She was a founding member and editorial director of the Writers and Readers Publishing Cooperative. Through the eighties she was a Deputy Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, UK, for whom she also edited the seminal Documents Series and established ICA television and the video Writers in Conversation series.

Appignanesi pr...more Lisa Appignanesi (born Elsbieta Borenztejn) is a writer and novelist of Polish-Jewish origin.

She was raised in Paris, France and in Montreal, Canada. She graduated from McGill University with a B.A. degree in 1966 and her M.A. the following year. During 1970-71 she was a staff writer for the Centre for Community Research in New York City and is a former University of Essex lecturer in European Studies. She was a founding member and editorial director of the Writers and Readers Publishing Cooperative. Through the eighties she was a Deputy Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, UK, for whom she also edited the seminal Documents Series and established ICA television and the video Writers in Conversation series.

Appignanesi produced several made for television films and had written a number of books before devoting herself to writing fulltime in 1990. Novels followed - Memory and Desire, Dreams of Innocence, A Good Woman, Paris Requiem, Unholy Loves, and in 2004 The Memory Man. These were interspersed with a classic study of Freud's Women, with John Forrester, and a number of other non-fictions. Her edited books include The Rushdie File and the PEN Penguin Book, Free Expression is No Offence.

In 2000, she was nominated for the Charles Taylor Prize for the best Canadian work of literary non-fiction for Losing the Dead: A Family Memoir. The Memory Man was short-listed for the Commonwealth Prize and won the Canadian Holocaust Fiction Award. In recognition of her contribution to literature, Lisa Appignanesi has been honoured with a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French government. In 2004, she became Deputy President of English PEN and has run its highly successful 'Free Expression is No Offence Campaign' against the Racial and Religious Hatred Bill. In 2008 she became President of English PEN.

She writes for The Guardian, The Independent and has made several series for BBC Radio 4, as well as frequently appearing as a cultural commentator.

Lisa Appignanesi has two children, the film-maker Josh Appignanesi, whose first feature is Song of Songs, and Katrina Forrester, campaigner with the group Plane Stupid. She lives in London.
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Average rating: 3.64 · 438 ratings · 69 reviews · 28 distinct works

	Mad, Bad and Sad: Women and the Mind Doctors 3.80 avg rating — 137 ratings — published 2007 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Paris Requiem 3.28 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Memory Man 3.48 avg rating — 21 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Memory and Desire 3.81 avg rating — 16 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	Freud's Women by Lisa Appignanesi, John Forrester 3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1993 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Dead of Winter 2.80 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Free Expression Is No Offence 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	Unholy Loves 3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Sanctuary 2.64 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	My rating:
	A Good Woman 3.17 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1997 — 4 editions	My rating:

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