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Jenny Diski

English writer

Died when: 68 years 295 days (825 months)
Star Sign: Cancer

 

Jenny Diski

Jenny Diski FRSL (née Simmonds; 8 July 1947 – 28 April 2016) was an English writer.She had a troubled childhood, but was taken in and mentored by the novelist Doris Lessing; she lived in Lessing's house for four years.

Diski was educated at University College London, and worked as a teacher during the 1970s and early 1980s.Diski was a regular contributor to the London Review of Books; the collections Don't and A View from the Bed include articles and essays written for the publication.

She won the 2003 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award for Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking around America With Interruptions.


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