Scott Moncrieff Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 40 (2005) Winner
Lisa Appignanesi
リサ・アピニャネーシ
Risa Apinyanēshi
Aliases:
Elżbieta Borensztejn
Pen Names:
Jessica Ayre（Used as pen name for novels）
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1946-01-04 （Łódź, Poland）
- Died
- :null
- Nationality
- British, Canadian
- Languages
- English
- Religion
- Judaism
- Residence History
- Łódź, Poland → Paris, France → Montreal, Quebec, Canada → London, UK
Career
- Occupations
- Writer, Novelist, Campaigner, Editor, Lecturer
- Active Years
- 1973-
- Affiliations
- Royal Society of Literature, English PEN, Freud Museum London
- Memberships
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL)
- Nominations
- Nominated for Charles Taylor Prize, Nominated for Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Literary Prize for Losing the Dead, Shortlisted for Commonwealth Writers' Prize for The Memory Man, Shortlisted for Warwick Prize, longlisted for Samuel Johnson Prize for Mad, Bad and Sad
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| McGill University | — | Literature | BA | 1960年代 | Canada |
| McGill University | — | Literature | MA | 1960年代 | Canada |
| University of Sussex | — | Comparative Literature | DPhil | 1967-1970 | UK |
McGill University
Literature
Degree:
BA
Period:
1960年代
Year of Graduation:
1966
Country:
Canada
Features editor for The McGill Daily
McGill University
Literature
Degree:
MA
Period:
1960年代
Year of Graduation:
1967
Country:
Canada
Thesis on Edgar Allan Poe
University of Sussex
Comparative Literature
Degree:
DPhil
Period:
1967-1970
Year of Graduation:
1970
Country:
UK
Thesis on Proust, Musil and Henry James
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) | — | — | UK Government | 受賞 |
| 2009 | British Medical Association Award | Mad, Bad and Sad | 科学の公衆理解 | British Medical Association | 受賞 |
| 1987 | Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres | — | — | French Ministry of Culture | 受賞 |
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
2013
Organization:
UK Government
Result:
受賞
British Medical Association Award
2009
Work:
Mad, Bad and Sad
Category:
科学の公衆理解
Organization:
British Medical Association
Result:
受賞
Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
1987
Organization:
French Ministry of Culture
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
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Edition 17 (2005) Winner
Works
Major Works
Losing the Dead
1999 Family MemoirHow her parents survived occupied Poland by passing as Aryans
HolocaustFamily memoryIdentity
Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors
2008 Non-fictionHistory of women and mind doctors
PsychiatryWomen's historyEmotions
Bibliography
- The Language of Trust (1973)
- Proust, Musil and Henry James: Femininity and the Creative Imagination (1974)
- The Cabaret (1975)
- Memory and Desire (1991)
- Freud's Women (1992)
- Losing the Dead: A Family Memoir (1999)
- Mad, Bad and Sad: Women and the Mind Doctors (2008)
- All About Love: Anatomy of an Unruly Emotion (2011)
Translations by Author
- Translation of Nella Bielski (with John Berger)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Intellectual and exploratoryHistorical narrative
- Recurring Motifs
- Emotions and mindIdentityWomen's experiences
Legacy
Known as advocate for free expression, former Chair of Royal Society of Literature. Awarded for works on Freud and women's mental history.
Trivia
- Polish-born Jewish, raised in Canada, British writer.