# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lisa-appignanesi
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:42:48.759Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lisa-appignanesi"
name: "Lisa Appignanesi"
slug: "lisa-appignanesi"
description: "Lisa Appignanesi is a British-Canadian writer, novelist, and campaigner for free expression. Until 2021, she was the Chair of the Royal Society of Literature, and is a former President of English PEN and Chair of the Freud Museum London. She chaired the 2017 Man Booker International Prize won by Olga Tokarczuk. She is a founding editor of the website EXPeditions and chair of its editorial advisory board."
tagline: "British-Canadian writer, novelist, and campaigner for free expression"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lisa_Appignanesi_presenting_Golden_PEN.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1946-01-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.215444
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3632758/"
    handle:    "nm3632758"
sources:
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    title: "లిసా అప్పిగ్నానేసి"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ليسا اپيجنانيسى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lisa Appignanesi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Appignanesi"
    title: "Lisa Appignanesi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Appignanesi"
    title: "Lisa Appignanesi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Appignanesi"
    title: "Lisa Appignanesi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "لیزا اپیگنانسی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lisa Appignanesi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Appignanesi"
    title: "Lisa Appignanesi"
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  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Appignanesi"
    title: "Lisa Appignanesi"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6557782"
    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Lisa Appignanesi"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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