Lisa Appignanesi
2018 International Booker Prize Judge (Chair)
- Prizes judged
Lisa Appignanesi is a writer, novelist and cultural commentator.
Her non-fiction includes Trials of Passion: Crimes in the Name of Love and Madness; Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800; and Freud’s Women (with John Forrester). She is also the author of an acclaimed family memoir, Losing the Dead and nine novels, including The Memory Man and Paris Requiem. She is a visiting Professor in Literature and Medical Humanities at King’s College London.
She was made a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in recognition of her contribution to literature. Chair of the Royal Society of Literature, she is also a former President of English PEN and former Chair of the Trustees of the Freud Museum in London. Appignanesi was awarded an OBE for services to literature in 2013.