Biography
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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Known ForWriting
GenderFemale
Birthday1947-07-08
Deathday2016-04-28 (68 years old)
Birth PlaceLondon, United Kingdom
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
AwardsFellow of the Royal Society of Literature
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