Lisa Appignanesi
British-Canadian writer, novelist and campaigner / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Lisa Appignanesi OBE FRSL[1] (born Elżbieta Borensztejn; 4 January 1946) is a Polish-born British-Canadian[citation needed] writer, novelist, and campaigner for free expression. Until 2021, she was the Chair of the Royal Society of Literature, and is a former President of English PEN and Chair of the Freud Museum London. She chaired the 2017 Booker International Prize won by Olga Tokarczuk.
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Born | Elżbieta Borensztejn (1946-01-04) 4 January 1946 (age 78) Łódź, Poland |
Occupation | Writer |
Language | English |
Nationality | British, Canadian |
Alma mater | McGill University University of Sussex |
Notable works | Losing the Dead Mad, Bad and Sad |
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She is an Honorary Fellow of St Benet's Hall, Oxford and visiting professor in the Department of English at King's College London, and held a Wellcome Trust People Award there for her public series on The Brain and the Mind. Her book Mad, Bad, and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors won the 2009 British Medical Association Award for the Public Understanding of Science, among other prizes.[2] She has written for The New York Review of Books, The Guardian and The Observer, as well as making programmes and appearing on the BBC.