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Doris May Lessing CH OMG (née Tayler; 22 October 1919 – 17 November 2013) was a British novelist. She was born to British parents in Iran , where she lived until 1925. Her family then moved to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe ), where she remained until moving in 1949 to London, England.
6 days ago · Doris Lessing (born October 22, 1919, Kermānshāh, Persia [now Iran]—died November 17, 2013, London, England) was a British writer whose novels and short stories are largely concerned with people involved in the social and political upheavals of the 20th century.
Nov 17, 2013 · Doris Lessing. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2007. Born: 22 October 1919, Kermanshah, Persia (now Iran) Died: 17 November 2013, London, United Kingdom. Residence at the time of the award: United Kingdom.
When Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007, it seemed that, at last, the highest literary honour was being placed on a woman who has surveyed and judged mankind in the latter half of the 20th century like no other writer.
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"
Doris Lessing talks about the inspiration for her first book, ‘The Grass is Singing’, the autobiographical nature of her ‘Children of Violence’ sequence of novels (10:29), ‘The Golden Notebook’ (12:23) and how it became a cult book (21:30), and why she took a foray into science fiction writing with her ‘Canopus in Argos’ series ...
Doris Lessing was born Doris May Tayler in Persia (now Iran) on October 22, 1919. Both of her parents were British: her father, who had been crippled in World War I, was a clerk in the Imperial Bank of Persia; her mother had been a nurse.
Nov 17, 2013 · Doris Lessing, the uninhibited and outspoken novelist who won the 2007 Nobel Prize for a lifetime of writing that shattered convention, both social and artistic, died on Sunday at her home in...
Oct 11, 2007 · Doris Lessing, the Persian-born, Rhodesian-raised and London-residing novelist whose deeply autobiographical writing has swept across continents and reflects her engagement with the social and...
Oct 8, 2019 · Doris Lessing visited NASA’s spaceflight centre in Houston, Texas, in 1988. Credit: Doris Lessing Archives at the University of East Anglia. In The Making of the Representative for Planet 8,...
