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Jenny Diski
Jenny Diski FRSL (née Simmonds;〔Katharine Viner (Obituary: Roger Diski ), ''The Guardian'', 8 March 2011.〕 born 8 July 1947) is an English writer. Diski was educated at University College London, and worked as a teacher during the 1970s and early 1980s.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jenny Diski - British Council Literature )〕 She won the 2003 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award for ''Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking around America With Interruptions''.
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.
==Early life==
A troubled teenager from a difficult, fractured home with a Jewish father,〔Diski, ''Skating to Antarctica'' p. 35〕 Diski spent much of her formative years as in- or outpatient at various psychiatric institutions.〔Jenny Diski, ''The Sixties'' (2009) p. 23 and p. 31〕 At the same time, she immersed herself deeply in the culture of the '60s, from the Aldermaston Marches to the Grosvenor Square protests,〔Diski, ''Sixties'' p. 28 and p. 69〕 from drugs to free love, from jazz to acid rock〔Diski, ''Sixties'' p. 33-44〕 and a flirtation with the ideas and methods of R. D. Laing.〔Diski, ''Sixties'' p. 132〕 Taken into the London home of a school-friend’s mother, the novelist Doris Lessing,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jenny Diski - British Council Literature )〕 Diski resumed her education; and by the start of the 1970s was training as a teacher, starting a free school, and making her first publication.〔Diski, ''Sixties'' p. 24 and p. 97-8〕
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