Lisa Appignanesi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Lisa Appignanesi

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Date of Birth: 04-Jan-1946

Place of Birth: Łódź, Łódź Voivodeship, Poland

Profession: writer, author, journalist, literary critic, novelist, linguist

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Lisa Appignanesi

  • Lisa Appignanesi (born Elzbieta Borensztejn; 4 January 1946) is a British-Canadian writer, novelist, and campaigner for free expression.
  • She is the Chair of the Royal Society of Literature, a former President of English PEN and former Chair of the Trustees of the Freud Museum in London. She is a 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.
  • 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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