Diski (standing) with her rescuer and mentor Doris Lessing in 1963
Born
Jennifer Simmonds (1947-07-08)8 July 1947 London, England
Died
28 April 2016(2016-04-28) (aged 68)
Occupation
Writer
Genre
Autobiography, fiction, non-fiction, travel
Jenny Diski FRSL (née Simmonds;[1] 8 July 1947 – 28 April 2016) was an English writer. She had a troubled childhood, but was taken in and mentored by the novelist Doris Lessing; she lived in Lessing's house for four years. Diski was educated at University College London, and worked as a teacher during the 1970s and early 1980s.[2]
Diski was a regular contributor to the London Review of Books; the collections Don't and A View from the Bed include articles and essays written for the publication. She won the 2003 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award for Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking around America With Interruptions.
^Katharine Viner (8 March 2011). "Obituary: Roger Diski". The Guardian.
^"Jenny Diski". British Council Literature. British Council. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
JennyDiski FRSL (née Simmonds; 8 July 1947 – 28 April 2016) was an English writer. She had a troubled childhood, but was taken in and mentored by the...
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And which doesn't preclude being funny." (Citing Sontag as quoted in JennyDiski, "Seriously Uncool", London Review of Books 29, no. 6 (March 22, 2007)...
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ambition to write an autobiography in dreams. According to JennyDiski, Emily is partly based on Diski, who lived with Lessing for some years as an adolescent...
Nothing Natural is the 1986 debut novel by JennyDiski, initially published in hardback through Simon & Schuster. It follows a young woman who enters...
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assertion." In response to Greer's statement in the book about sex tourism, JennyDiski for the London Review of Books said, "Would it be impossibly puritanical...
of the same book JennyDiski called the Homes for Votes scandal Porter's "biggest, stupidest and most cynical act of corruption". Diski, without justifying...
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1918) 2015 – Michael J. Ingelido, American general (b. 1916) 2016 – JennyDiski, English author and screenwriter (b. 1947) 2017 – Mariano Gagnon, American...
2017. Kellaway, Kate (28 April 2016). "JennyDiski obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 April 2016. JennyDiski, The Sixties (2009) p. 24, 97–98 Kebbel...
"Remembering Elizabeth Maxwell". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 17 July 2019. Diski, Jenny (26 January 1995). "Bob and Betty". London Review of Books. 17 (2). Retrieved...
of the Swiss Confederation 1947 – Kim Darby, American actress 1947 – JennyDiski, English author and screenwriter (d. 2016) 1947 – Luis Fernando Figari...
CSIC, 2014. http://libros.csic.es/product_info.php?products_id=772. JennyDiski, "Apology for the Woman Writing", Virago Press, 2008 ISBN 9781844083855 :...
Iris Chang – The Rape of Nanking Jared Diamond – Guns, Germs and Steel JennyDiski – Skating to Antarctica Michael Drosnin – The Bible Code Gerina Dunwich...
Sprague de Camp and Catherine Crook de Camp – The Incorporated Knight JennyDiski – Rainforest Jim Dodge – Not Fade Away Roddy Doyle – The Commitments...
Laing, The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise (1984) p. 98 JennyDiski, The Sixties (2009) p. 127-9 Harold Bloom, Doris Lessing (2003) p. 230...
Adam Ant, following a suicide attempt by an overdose of pills in 1976. JennyDiski, an English writer, briefly stayed at the hospital. John Duffy, British...
PRIZES 2023". Flood, Alison (21 September 2017). "Husband's elegy for JennyDiski wins Forward prize for best single poem". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077...
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