20 Facts About Lisa Appignanesi

Lisa Appignanesi was born on Elzbieta Borensztejn; 4 January 1946 and is a British-Canadian writer, novelist, and campaigner for free expression.

Lisa Appignanesi chaired the 2017 Booker International Prize won by Olga Tokarczuk.

Lisa Appignanesi 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.

Lisa Appignanesi has written for The New York Review of Books, The Guardian and The Observer, as well as making programmes and appearing on the BBC.

Lisa Appignanesi studied at McGill University in Montreal, where she was a features editor for The McGill Daily.

The couple had one son, film director Josh Lisa Appignanesi; they separated in 1981 and divorced in 1984.

Lisa Appignanesi then lectured at New England College and in 1976 was one of the founders of the Writers and Readers Publishing Cooperative, which included Richard Appignanesi, John Berger and Arnold Wesker and launched the graphic Beginners series with titles on Marx and Freud.

Lisa Appignanesi became Deputy Director of the ICA in 1986 and created the ICA-Television branch, which produced England's Henry Moore in 1988 and Seductions for Channel Four.

Lisa Appignanesi left the ICA in 1990 to write full-time.

Lisa Appignanesi has written the award-winning Mad, Bad and Sad: Women and the Mind Doctors in 2008 and All About Love.

Lisa Appignanesi has co-written two films on Salman Rushdie for French television, presented two series of radio programmes on Sigmund Freud for BBC Radio 4, presented the arts and ideas Nightwaves programme for BBC Three, contributed to a variety of programmes, including Saturday Review, Start the Week and Woman's Hour, and written for the New Writing Partnership.

Lisa Appignanesi has appeared as a cultural commentator on many television programmes, including the BBC's Newsnight and Late Review.

Lisa Appignanesi was General Editor of The Big Ideas series, published by Profile Books, which includes Violence by Slavoj Zizek and Bodies, by Susie Orbach.

Lisa Appignanesi worked as a fellow of the Brain and Behaviour Laboratory at the Open University, was a council-member of the ICA and was Chair of the Freud Museum, London from 2008 to 2014.

Lisa Appignanesi has written for The Guardian, The Observer, The Independent, and The Daily Telegraph and The New York Review of Books.

Lisa Appignanesi is a former member of the Board of IMPRESS Project, the independent monitor for the UK Press.

Lisa Appignanesi was voted one of Britain's Top 101 female public intellectuals.

Lisa Appignanesi has been nominated for the Charles Taylor Prize, and the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Literary Prize for her family memoir Losing the Dead, while her novel The Memory Man was short-listed for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and won the Canadian Holocaust Fiction Award.

Lisa Appignanesi was appointed Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to literature.

Lisa Appignanesi became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2015 and became the Chair of the Royal Society of Literature Council in 2016.