Lisa Appignanesi

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

Life

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

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

Appignanesi produced series in the cultural program of radio and television. She has worked on two films about Salman Rushdie for French television, produced programs for BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 4 and commented in Newsnight. Contributions from it were printed in the English newspapers The Guardian, The Observer, The Independent and The Daily Telegraph.

Since 2004, she was active on the Board of the English PEN Centre, from 2008 to 2010 as its chairman, and tried the efforts of the English Parliament to restrict the freedom of expression to prevent.

In 1987 she was honored as a Chevalier of the 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 together with the historian John Forrester. She's the daughter Katrina Forrester and his son Josh Appignanesi, who made his debut with the film directed by Song of Songs, 2005.

Writings (selection )

  • Edited by Rachel Holmes, Susie Orbach: Fifty Shades of Feminism. Virago, London, 2013
  • Paris Requiem. From the English by Wolfgang Thon. Rütten and Loening, Berlin, 2004
  • In the silence of winter. Novel. From the English by Wolf -Dietrich Müller, building, Berlin 2000
  • The other woman. Building, Berlin, 2001
  • Cold is the sea. Building, Berlin, 2002
  • With John Forrester Freud 's women. Virago Press, London, 1993 German: . The women of Sigmund Freud. From the English by Brigitte Rapp and Uta Szyszkowitz. List, Munich 1994
  • Simone de Beauvoir: a woman who changed the world. Dt. Übers by Sonja Hauser, Heyne, München, 1989
  • The cabaret. With e Vorw by Werner Finck. TRANSFER From d Engl. by Gerd Betz. Belser, Stuttgart, 1976
  • Femininity and the creative imagination. Vision Press, London, 1973
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