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FYI and no comment, except that it's apparently one of those years when even a common schmoe like me can recognize the name of the winner.
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Doris Lessing wins Nobel
Published: 11th October 2007 13:02 CET
British author Doris Lessing has won the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy has announced.
The academy described Lessing as "that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny."
Few had tipped Lessing for the 10 million kronor prize, which last year was awarded Orhan Parmuk.
Doris Lessing was born in 1919 to British parents in Persia (now Iran) as Doris May Taylor, but the family moved to Southern Rhodesia in 1925, where they lived on a farm. She described her childhood in her 1994 autobiography, Under My Skin.
After attending convent school, which she left at 14, she went on to work as a nanny, a telephonist, an office worker a stenographer and a journalist. She married twice - first to Frank Charles Wisdom, with whom she had a son and a daughter. After their divorce in 1943 she married Gottfried Lessing, a German-Jewish immigrant.
Doris and Gottfried Lessing divorced in 1949, after which Doris Lessing moved to London, where she started her writing career in earnest (although she had a number of short stories published in Southern Rhodesia).
Race and empire figure are themes frequently explored by Lessing. In her debut novel, The Grass is Singing (1950), she examines the relationship between a white farmer's wife and her black servant.
Lessing's breakthrough came with The Golden Notebook (1962), a book that became a favourite for the feminist movement for examining the male-female sexual relationship from a woman's standpoint. Lessing herself has said she does not want to be viewed as a feminist author.
The autobiographical Under My Skin (1994) and Walking in the Shade (1997) are widely regarded as the high-point of Lessing's career. They were praised for capturing the last days of the British Empire.
A strident critic of apartheid in South Africa and racism in Southern Rhodesia, she was banned for many years from visiting either country. In Britain she became active in the Communist Party for a few years in the 1950s and campaigned against nuclear weapons.
Lessing is widely respected by her contemporaries as one of the most cerebral novelists of her generation. Author Margaret Drabble once described her as "''one of the very few novelists who have refused to believe that the world is too complicated to understand.''
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Doris Lessing wins Nobel
Published: 11th October 2007 13:02 CET
British author Doris Lessing has won the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy has announced.
The academy described Lessing as "that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny."
Few had tipped Lessing for the 10 million kronor prize, which last year was awarded Orhan Parmuk.
Doris Lessing was born in 1919 to British parents in Persia (now Iran) as Doris May Taylor, but the family moved to Southern Rhodesia in 1925, where they lived on a farm. She described her childhood in her 1994 autobiography, Under My Skin.
After attending convent school, which she left at 14, she went on to work as a nanny, a telephonist, an office worker a stenographer and a journalist. She married twice - first to Frank Charles Wisdom, with whom she had a son and a daughter. After their divorce in 1943 she married Gottfried Lessing, a German-Jewish immigrant.
Doris and Gottfried Lessing divorced in 1949, after which Doris Lessing moved to London, where she started her writing career in earnest (although she had a number of short stories published in Southern Rhodesia).
Race and empire figure are themes frequently explored by Lessing. In her debut novel, The Grass is Singing (1950), she examines the relationship between a white farmer's wife and her black servant.
Lessing's breakthrough came with The Golden Notebook (1962), a book that became a favourite for the feminist movement for examining the male-female sexual relationship from a woman's standpoint. Lessing herself has said she does not want to be viewed as a feminist author.
The autobiographical Under My Skin (1994) and Walking in the Shade (1997) are widely regarded as the high-point of Lessing's career. They were praised for capturing the last days of the British Empire.
A strident critic of apartheid in South Africa and racism in Southern Rhodesia, she was banned for many years from visiting either country. In Britain she became active in the Communist Party for a few years in the 1950s and campaigned against nuclear weapons.
Lessing is widely respected by her contemporaries as one of the most cerebral novelists of her generation. Author Margaret Drabble once described her as "''one of the very few novelists who have refused to believe that the world is too complicated to understand.''
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