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Jenny Diski

July 2020

  • Jenny Diski

    Book of the day
    Why Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told? by Jenny Diski review – supremely sharp

  • Mary-Kay Wilmers

    Mary-Kay Wilmers: 'At Faber, TS Eliot was referred to as the GLP – Greatest Living Poet'

September 2017

  • Ian Patterson Forward Arts Prizes 2017 Royal Festival Hall London UK

    Husband's elegy for Jenny Diski wins Forward prize for best single poem

    Ian Patterson’s The Plenty of Nothing, begun in the days leading up to her death, shares honours with best collection win for Sinéad Morrissey’s On Balance

December 2016

  • Bainbridge At Home<br>English novelist Beryl Bainbridge (1934 - 2010) at home, 8th May 1967. (Photo by Richard Chowen/Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

    2016 – a year of celebrating women writers

  • Jenny Diski at home in Cambridge. 12/12/14 by Suki Dhanda for the Observer New Review

    The Observer's obituaries of 2016
    Jenny Diski remembered by Ian Patterson

June 2016

  • A still from the National Geographic Channel documentary In the Womb.

    Books blog
    Ian McEwan's unborn baby – and other strange narrators

    Nutshell, his forthcoming novel, is told from inside a mother’s womb. It’s a strikingly unusual point of view – do any others outdo it for oddness?

May 2016

  • Jenny Diski

    Letter: Jenny Diski obituary

  • jenny diski portrait

    Book of the day
    In Gratitude by Jenny Diski review – on death… and Doris

April 2016

  • Jenny Diski at home in Cambridge. 12/12/14 by Suki Dhanda for the Observer New Review

    Jenny Diski’s cancer diary: 'I too shall cease'

    In 2014 author Jenny Diski was diagnosed with terminal cancer and began her acclaimed farewell diary. She died on 28 April, aged 68
  • Jenny Diski

    Jenny Diski obituary

    Prolific author of fiction, memoir and essays for whom no subject was taboo

    • Books blog
      Jenny Diski in quotes: 'Nobody is better at having cancer than me'

    • Author Jenny Diski, diagnosed with inoperable cancer, dies aged 68

    • Book of the day
      In Gratitude by Jenny Diski review – cancer, contrariness and Doris Lessing

November 2015

  • 'Better start cooking the meth now' … Jenny Diski. Photograph: MMP/Writer Pictures

    Radio review
    One to One: David Schneider with Jenny Diski – ‘Radio that makes your stomach flip’

  • Jenny Diski at the LRB bookshop in London.

    A life in ...
    Jenny Diski interview: 'The mediocrity of fiction is really to do with feeling cosy’

April 2015

  • Kiš for breakfast

    Books blog
    Tips, links and suggestions: what are you reading this week?

    Your space to discuss the books you are reading and what you think of them

January 2015

  • Young Fathers won the Mercury Prize for their album Dead

    The best original photographs from the Observer
    Original Observer photography: December 2014

    We look back at the faces of 2014 and predict the movers and shakers for the new year. This month’s gallery features portraits of the up-and-coming alongside more established figures such as David Tennant, Eddie Redmayne and Paul Thomas Anderson. This is a showcase of the best photography commissioned by the Observer in December

December 2014

  • Jenny Diski at home in Cambridge.

    Jenny Diski on Doris Lessing: ‘I was the cuckoo in the nest’

    Writer Jenny Diski was taken in by Doris Lessing as a teenager, but the relationship soon soured. Now she has finally decided to tell her side of the story, she tells Tim Adams

September 2014

  • Andrew Brown

    In praise of ...
    In praise of … Jenny Diski

    Andrew Brown
  • Jenny Diski

    Books blog
    Jenny Diski applies angry eloquence to inoperable cancer diagnosis

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