Lisa Appignanesi

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Lisa Appignanesi , OBE (born Elżbieta Borensztejn January 4, 1946 in Łódź , Poland ) is a British-Canadian author.

Life

Elżbieta Borensztejn's parents were Holocaust survivors who emigrated to France and from there to Canada. She graduated from McGill University in Montreal . After completing her master's degree in 1974, she completed her studies in comparative literature with a dissertation on Proust , Musil and Henry James : Femininity and the Creative Imagination at the University of Sussex . She stayed in England at the University of Essex , wrote introductory literary studies and published a study on cabaret in 1975 . In 1980 she went to the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London as Deputy Director for ten years . At the ICA, she produced a program about Henry Moore for Channel Four in 1988 .

In 1991 she published her first novel Memory and Desire . She also wrote detective novels . She worked on a study on Sigmund Freud together with John Forrester in 1992.

Appignanesi produced series in the cultural programs of radio and television. She has worked on two films about Salman Rushdie for French television, produced programs on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 4 and commented on Newsnight . Her contributions have appeared in The Guardian , The Observer , The Independent and The Daily Telegraph .

Since 2004 she has been active on the board of the English PEN Center , from 2008 to 2010 as its chairman, and tried to prevent efforts by the English parliament to restrict freedom of expression.

In 1987 she was honored as Chevalier des Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and in early 2013 she was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).

After her marriage to the author Richard Appignanesi, she lives with the historian John Forrester. She has a daughter, Katrina Forrester, and a son, Josh Appignanesi, who made his debut directing Song of Songs in 2005 .

Fonts (selection)

  • Edited with Rachel Holmes, Susie Orbach : Fifty Shades of Feminism . Virago, London 2013
  • Paris Requiem . Translated from Wolfgang Thon. Rütten & Loening , Berlin 2004
  • In the silence of winter . Novel. Translated by Wolf-Dietrich Müller. Structure, Berlin 2000
  • The other woman . Structure, Berlin 2001
  • The sea is cold . Structure, Berlin 2002
  • with John Forrester: Freud's women . Virago Press, London, 1993
  • Simone de Beauvoir . A woman who changed the world . Translated by Sonja Hauser. Heyne, Munich 1989
  • The cabaret . Studio Vista, London 1975
    • The cabaret . Foreword Werner Finck . Translated by Gerd Betz. Belser, Stuttgart 1976
  • Femininity and the creative imagination . Vision Press, London 1973

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lisa Appignanesi Profile , The Guardian, accessed March 30, 2013
  2. ^ Richard Appignanesi , at WorldCat
personal data
SURNAME Appignanesi, Lisa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Borensztejn, Elżbieta (maiden name); Ayre, Jessica (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Łódź , Poland