Jenny Diski
Jenny Diski | |
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Diski (standing) in 1963 with Doris Lessing, with whom she had a complex relationship | |
| Born | Jennifer Simmonds 8 July 1947 London, England |
| Died | 28 April 2016 (aged 68) |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Genre | Autobiography, fiction, non-fiction, travel |
Jenny Diski FRSL (née Simmonds; 8 July 1947 – 28 April 2016) was an English novelist, non-fiction writer and memoirist.
Diski was a regular contributor to the London Review of Books; the collections Don't and Why Didn't You Do What You Were Told? collect articles and essays written for the publication. Her memoirs include In Gratitude, The Sixties, Skating to Antarctica, and Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking around America With Interruptions, for which she won the 2003 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award.