# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jenny-diski
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:26:40.888Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jenny-diski"
name: "Jenny Diski"
slug: "jenny-diski"
description: "Jenny Diski FRSL was an English novelist, non-fiction writer and memoirist. She was a regular contributor to the London Review of Books; articles and essays she wrote for the publication are in the collections Don't and Why Didn't You Do What You Were Told? Her memoirs include In Gratitude, The Sixties, Skating to Antarctica, and Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking around America With Interruptions, for which she won the 2003 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award."
tagline: "British writer"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2a/Jenni_Diski_with_Doris_Lessing.jpg/330px-Jenni_Diski_with_Doris_Lessing.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1947-07-08"
deathDate: "2016-04-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.02
  momentum:             0.1734489659773182
  historical:           7.521566666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0228355/"
    handle:    "nm0228355"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "چينى ديسكى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jenny Diski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Diski"
    title: "Jenny Diski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Diski"
    title: "Jenny Diski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Diski"
    title: "Jenny Diski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Diski"
    title: "Jenny Diski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Diski"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4944889"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Jenny Diski"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump