Lisa Appignanesi
Novelist, Author
1946 –
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Who is Lisa Appignanesi?
Elżbieta "Lisa" Appignanesi OBE is a British writer, novelist, and campaigner for free expression. She is a former President of English PEN and Chair of the Trustees of the Freud Museum in London. She is Visiting Professor, Department of English, King's College London, and holds a Wellcome Trust People Award for her public series, hosted by King's College London, on The Brain and the Mind. Her book Mad, Bad, and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors won the 2009 British Medical Association Award for the Public Understanding of Science, among other prizes.
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- Born
- Jan 4, 1946
Łódź - Also known as
- Jessica Ayre
- Children
- Religion
- Judaism
- Ethnicity
- Poles
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Canada
- Profession
- Education
- McGill University
- Lived in
- Paris
- Montreal
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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