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Jenny Diski (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. She won the 2003 Thomas Cook Travel Book award for Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking around America With Interruptions.

Jenny 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. Her partner is Ian Patterson, known as "the Poet" in Diski's writings, who is also a translator and Director of English studies at Queens' College, Cambridge. She has an adult daughter.

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