22 Facts About Richard Appignanesi

Richard Appignanesi is a Canadian writer and editor.

Richard Appignanesi is a founding publisher and editor of Icon Books.

Richard Appignanesi was founding editor of the Manga Shakespeare series.

Richard Appignanesi is a former executive editor of the journal Third Text, and reviews editor of the policy studies journal Futures.

Richard Appignanesi distinguished himself in music at an early age when, in 1953, he was an E Archambault Pour Merite gold medal finalist and obtained a music scholarship at the Montreal Conservatory.

Richard Appignanesi graduated with an Honors BA in English Literature in 1962 from Loyola College, Montreal.

Richard Appignanesi was married to writer Lisa Appignanesi with whom he has one son, filmmaker Josh Appignanesi; the couple divorced in 1984.

Richard Appignanesi has a son, Raphael, and a daughter, Rosa, with different partners.

In 1974, Richard Appignanesi co-founded the Writers and Readers Publishing Cooperative, Ltd.

In 1976, Richard Appignanesi translated into English and published Mexican cartoonist Rius' Marx para Principiantes with the English title Marx for Beginners.

In 1991, together with Peter Pugh and Jeremy Cox, Richard Appignanesi co-founded and became director of Icon Books Ltd.

In 2007, Richard Appignanesi undertook a project explicitly targeting a youthful audience.

Richard Appignanesi has been called a "master of the graphic translation of complex cultural ideas" The Wolf Man: Graphic Freud is an illustrated narrative of one of Sigmund Freud's most famous case studies and founding text of modern psychoanalysis.

Richard Appignanesi's text is accompanied by the work of graphic artist Slawa Harasymowicz.

Richard Appignanesi has written four novels, the first three of which were published as a fiction trilogy, Italia Perversa, consisting of the novels Stalin's Orphans, The Mosque, and Destroying America, originally drafted in 1967, saw light in the early 1980s.

However, Richard Appignanesi's demanding and highly literate prose, in contrast to the generally well received approachable style of the illustrated texts, produced ambivalent reviews.

Almost two decades later Richard Appignanesi published Yukio Mishima's Report to the Emperor, a fictional autobiography of the Japanese poet, novelist, playwright, film director, actor and bodybuilder Yukio Mishima, one of the most important Japanese literary and artistic figures of the 20th century as well as an extreme-right activist.

Richard Appignanesi's novel is set predominantly in post-World War II reconstruction Japan and in Benares, India.

Richard Appignanesi co-curated with Juliet Steyn Pretext: Heteronyms, a Rear Window art exhibition of 21 artists responding to Fernando Pessoa's heteronymic personae, at Clink Street Studios, in London, in 1995.

Richard Appignanesi was program co-curator of the Writing Europe conference for the British Council in Kyiv, Ukraine, in 2005.

Richard Appignanesi curated the art exhibition, Encounters in Relational Geography: Dust, Ashes, Residua, featuring seven East European artists, at Open Space, Zentrum fur Kunstprojekte, in Vienna, in 2010.

Richard Appignanesi was co-curator, with Haim Bresheeth and Ali Nobil Ahmad, of a program of film exhibitions and related lectures, Winds of Change: Cinema in Muslim Societies, organized by Third Text and the Institute of Contemporary arts, London, in 2011.