President (2008–11). As part of her work with English PEN she edited Free Expression is No Offence, a collection of writings that formed part of English PEN's protest against what became the Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006 and helped induce the British Government to amend the bill by inserting a robust clause protecting freedom of expression. Under her Presidency, English PEN launched its report on Libel Reform, "Free Speech is Not for Sale," helped to rid Britain of obsolete Blasphemy and Criminal Libel laws, as well as setting up the PEN PINTER PRIZE. Appignanesi was also voted one of Britain's Top 101 female public intellectuals. Appignanesi has been nominated for the Charles Taylor Prize, and the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Literary Prize for her family memoir Losing the Dead, while her novel The Memory Man was short-listed for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and won the Canadian Holocaust Fiction Award. Losing the Dead describes how her parents managed to survive occupied Poland by passing as Aryans. Mad, Bad and Sad was short-listed for the Warwick Prize and long-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize, amongst others, and won several awards. With John Berger, she translated the work of Nella Bielski. The Year is 42 won the Scott Moncrieff Prize for Literary Translation. In 1987 she was made a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Appignanesi was appointed Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to literature. She became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2015 and became the Chair of the Royal Society of Literature Council in 2016. Selected works Books as Lisa Appignanesi The Language of Trust (1973) Proust, Musil and Henry James: Femininity and the Creative Imagination (1974) The Cabaret (1975) Ideas from France (1986) (editor) Postmodernism (1988) (editor) The Rushdie File (1989) (edited with Sara Maitland) Memory and Desire (1991) Freud's Women (1992) (co-author: John Forrester) (new edition 2005) Dreams of Innocence (1994) A Good Woman (1996) The Things We Do for Love (1997) Losing the Dead: A Family Memoir (1999) The Dead of Winter (1999) Sanctuary (2000) Paris Requiem (2001) (new edition 2014) The Cabaret (2004) Kicking Fifty (2004) The Memory Man (2004) Free Expression is No Offence (2005) Unholy Loves (2005); published in the UK as Sacred Ends (2014) Simone De Beauvoir (2005) Mad, Bad and Sad: Women and the