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Somerset Maugham Award (1) |
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WH Smith Literary Award (3) |
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| complete name: |
Doris May Lessing |
| nobel prize: |
literature |
| award year: |
2007 |
| prize share: |
Prize share: 1/1 |
| rational: |
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2007 was awarded to Doris Lessing "that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny." |
| biography: |
Biography |
| laureate facts: |
Facts |
| laureate lecture: |
Lecture |
| birth name: |
Doris May Tayler |
| given name: |
Doris |
| family name: |
Lessing |
| pseudonym: |
Jane Somers |
| occupation: |
screenwriter |
| occupation: |
writer |
| occupation: |
poet |
| occupation: |
playwright |
| occupation: |
novelist |
| occupation: |
essayist |
| occupation: |
autobiographer |
| occupation: |
science fiction writer |
| field of work: |
poetry |
| field of work: |
essay |
| notable work: |
The Grass Is Singing |
| notable work: |
The Golden Notebook |
| notable work: |
The Cleft |
| notable work: |
The Good Terrorist |
| description: |
Doris May Lessing was a British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer. Her novels include The Grass is Singing (1950), the sequence of five novels collectively called Children of Violence (1952-69), The Golden Notebook (1962), The Good Terrorist (1985), and five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos: Archives (1979-1983). Lessing was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. In awarding the prize, the Swedish Academy described her as "that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny". Lessing was the eleventh woman and the oldest person ever to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. In 2001, Lessing was awarded the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime's achievement in British literature. In 2008, The Times ranked her fifth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". |
| image copyright: |
© The Nobel Foundation. Photo: U. Montan |
| image citation: |
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2007. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2007/summary/> |
| date birth: |
1919 |
| date death: |
2013 |
| usual name: |
Doris Lessing |
