Lisa Appignanesi
Lisa Appignanesi (born Elsbieta Borenztejn on January 4, 1946 in Lodz, Poland) is a television producer and novelist.
Of Jewish extraction, she was raised in Paris, France and in Montreal, Canada, she graduated from McGill University with a B.A. degree in 1966 and her M.A. the following year. During 1970-71 she was a staff writer for the Centre for Community Research in New York City and is a former University of Essex lecturer in European Studies and a Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, UK.
Appignanesi produced several made for television films, penned several novels plus works of non-fiction and is a founding member and editorial director for the Writers and Readers Publishing Cooperative.
In 1990 she began devoting herself towriting full time. In 2000, she was nominated for the Charles Taylor Prize for the best Canadian work of literary non-fiction for Losing the Dead: A Family Memoir. In recognition of her contribution to literature, Lisa Appignanesi has been honoured with a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French government.
Lisa Appignanesi has two children, Josh and Katrina, and lives in London.
Bibliography: (ficton & non-fiction)
- Freud's Women (2005)
- Simone De Beauvoir (Life & Times S.) (2005)
- The Memory Man (2004)
- Paris Requiem (2004)
- The Cabaret (2004)
- Sanctuary (2000)
- The Dead of Winter (1999)
- Losing the Dead: A Family Memoir (1999)
- The Things We Do for Love (1997)
- A Good Woman (1996)
- Dreams of Innocence (1994)
- Memory and Desire (1991)
- The Rushdie File (1984)
- New Discovery (1984)
- Hard to Handle (1983)
- One Man Woman (1982)
- Not to be Trusted (1981)
- The Cabaret (1975)