Jenny Diski

Jenny Diski

Jenny Diski (born July 8, 1947) in London) is a British writer. She won the 2003 Thomas Cook Travel Book award for "Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking around America Without Interruptions".

Jenny Diski is 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. Her partner is Ian Patterson, known as "the Poet" in Diski's writings, who is also a translator and Director of English studies at Queens' College, Cambridge.

Bibliography

*"Nothing Natural" (1986)
*"Rainforest" (1987)
*"Like Mother" (1988)
*"Then Again" (1990)
*"Happily Ever After" (1991)
*"Monkey's Uncle" (1994)
*"The Vanishing Princess" (1995) (short stories)
*"The Dream Mistress" (1996)
*"Skating to Antarctica" (1997)
*"Don't" (1998) (essays)
*"Only Human: A Comedy" (2000)
*"Stranger on a Train" (2002) (Winner of the 2003 J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography)
*"A View from the Bed" (2003) (essays)
*"After These Things" (2004)
*"On Trying to Keep Still" (2006)

External links

*contemporary writers|id=29
* [http://www.jennydiski.co.uk/ Jenny Diski's official website]
* [http://www.jennydiski.typepad.com/ Jenny Diski's blog]


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