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Jenny Diski.
Jenny Diski (8 July 1947 – 28 April 2016) was an English writer.
- Jenny Diski - Literature
- Jenny Diski - blog.
The English writer is facing death the only way she knows how: line by line.
- Jenny Diski on Doris Lessing: ‘I was the cuckoo in the nest’ | Books | The Guardian
Writer Jenny Diski was taken in by Doris Lessing in 1963 when she was a teenager, but the relationship soon soured.
Now Diski, recently diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer, has finally decided to tell her side of the story.
Lessing suggested she simply write down her life story: “It’s interesting enough, and there are editors who can deal with sorting out your sentences and that kind of thing.”
Diski need not have had that concern. Nothing she writes ever sounds like it could have been written by someone else.
She is the author of 10 novels that often seem capable of anything – ventriloquising Old Testament prophets, communing with orangutans, 16th-century love triangles, mining the deep psychology of motherhood and adolescence.
For all these fictional gifts, though, the essay form – part digressive memoir, part journey of exacting critical discovery – has always seemed her natural home.
She cites the essays of Michel de Montaigne and the fact and fantasy of Moby-Dick as her models (and you wouldn’t begrudge her either).
She has an uncanny ability to connect wildly disparate ideas and make them spark, to take readers on vivid mystery tours along her own neurological pathways, authorial umbrella held aloft.
Her essays are often survival stories.
And Diski has survived a great deal.
She survived parents who abused each other and her, physically and emotionally; her father, a professional conman and womaniser, walking out when she was 11; her mother’s subsequent overdoses and hysterical self-obsession.
She survived being raped by a stranger when she was 14.
A boarding school, St Christopher’s – she was fiercely bright and Camden council thought that the answer – which she escaped from.
She survived suicide attempts and various psychiatric hospitals.
She lived to tell tales of the 1960s and 1970s and sometimes disastrous experiments with drugs, sex, feminism, politics, employment in a shoe shop, teaching and repeated bouts of depressive illness.
- Jenny Diski’s End Notes - The New York Times
- Jenny Diski · Diary: Rape-Rape · LRB 5 November 2009
- (36) @diski - Twitter Search
- Roger Diski obituary | Travel | The Guardian
She married Roger Diski in 1976, and their daughter Chloe was born in 1977; the couple separated in 1981 and divorced.
Her later partner until the end of her life, Ian Patterson, known as "the Poet" in Diski's writings, is a translator and director of English Studies at Queens' College, Cambridge.
- Jenny Diski - Literature
- Jenny Diski - blog.
The English writer is facing death the only way she knows how: line by line.
- Jenny Diski on Doris Lessing: ‘I was the cuckoo in the nest’ | Books | The Guardian
Writer Jenny Diski was taken in by Doris Lessing in 1963 when she was a teenager, but the relationship soon soured.
Now Diski, recently diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer, has finally decided to tell her side of the story.
Lessing suggested she simply write down her life story: “It’s interesting enough, and there are editors who can deal with sorting out your sentences and that kind of thing.”
Diski need not have had that concern. Nothing she writes ever sounds like it could have been written by someone else.
She is the author of 10 novels that often seem capable of anything – ventriloquising Old Testament prophets, communing with orangutans, 16th-century love triangles, mining the deep psychology of motherhood and adolescence.
For all these fictional gifts, though, the essay form – part digressive memoir, part journey of exacting critical discovery – has always seemed her natural home.
She cites the essays of Michel de Montaigne and the fact and fantasy of Moby-Dick as her models (and you wouldn’t begrudge her either).
She has an uncanny ability to connect wildly disparate ideas and make them spark, to take readers on vivid mystery tours along her own neurological pathways, authorial umbrella held aloft.
Her essays are often survival stories.
And Diski has survived a great deal.
She survived parents who abused each other and her, physically and emotionally; her father, a professional conman and womaniser, walking out when she was 11; her mother’s subsequent overdoses and hysterical self-obsession.
She survived being raped by a stranger when she was 14.
A boarding school, St Christopher’s – she was fiercely bright and Camden council thought that the answer – which she escaped from.
She survived suicide attempts and various psychiatric hospitals.
She lived to tell tales of the 1960s and 1970s and sometimes disastrous experiments with drugs, sex, feminism, politics, employment in a shoe shop, teaching and repeated bouts of depressive illness.
- Jenny Diski’s End Notes - The New York Times
- Jenny Diski · Diary: Rape-Rape · LRB 5 November 2009
- (36) @diski - Twitter Search
- Roger Diski obituary | Travel | The Guardian
She married Roger Diski in 1976, and their daughter Chloe was born in 1977; the couple separated in 1981 and divorced.
Her later partner until the end of her life, Ian Patterson, known as "the Poet" in Diski's writings, is a translator and director of English Studies at Queens' College, Cambridge.
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