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Doris Lessing

Lessing at lit.cologne in 2006
Personal information
Birth nameDoris May Tayler
Birth date22 October 1919(age 91)
Place of birthKermanshah, Persia
Pen nameJane Somers
NationalityBritish
OccupationWriter
Period20th century, 21st century
Notable worksThe Grass is Singing, The Golden Notebook, Briefing for a Descent into Hell, The Good Terrorist, Canopus in Argos, The Cleft
Influenced byIdries Shah, Sufism, Olive Schreiner, Simone de Beauvoir, Sartre, Dostoyevsky, Brontë sisters, Christina Stead, D. H. Lawrence, Stendhal, Virginia Woolf, Mikhail Bulgakov, Olaf Stapledon
InfluencedAlexandra Fuller, Elaine Showalter, Octavia Butler, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Erica Jong, Toni Morrison, Joanna Russ, Marge Piercy, Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Atwood, Simoun
Literary movementModernism, Postmodernism, Sufism, Socialism, Feminism, Science fiction
Awards
Nobel Prize In Literature
2007

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Doris May Lessing CH (née Tayler; born 22 October 1919) is a British writer. Her novels include The Grass is Singing, The Golden Notebook, and five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos.

Lessing was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was described by the Swedish Academy 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 ever person 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".

Doris Lessing Video

Oct. 11 - British novelist Doris Lessing reacted with the words 'Oh Christ!' when told by a Reuters correspondent that she'd won the 2007 Nobel Prize for literature. Lessing gave her reaction as she returned to her home in London soon after the award was announced. According to her agent she missed the actual announcement as she had been out shopping.
2.38 min. | 4.91 user rating		 British writer Doris Lessing on Thursday won the Nobel Literature Prize for five decades of epic novels that have covered feminism and politics, as well her youth in Africa. Lessing, who will be 88 on October 22, is only the 11th woman to have won the prize since it was first awarded in 1901. 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 out shopping when the prize was announced and only learned the news several hours later when she returned to her London home, where she was met by a throng of journalists. "This has been going on for 30 years," said Lessing who put down her shopping bag and sat on her doorstep, head in her hand, after being told of the award by the waiting photographers. "I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one, so I'm delighted to win them all. It's a royal flush," she said. Lessing, whose work has covered a multitude of topics, has over the years been mentioned as a possible Nobel laureate but she was not seen as among the frontrunners this year. Although "The Golden Notebook", her best known work, established her as a feminist icon back in 1962, she has consistently refused the label and says her writing does not play a directly political role. Nonetheless, for the Nobel jury, "the burgeoning feminist movement saw it as a pioneering work and it belongs to the handful of books that informed the 20th <b>...</b>
0.17 min. | 4.81 user rating		 Google compra Double click y eso preocupa a Europa, Shopdropping: lo que dejan en los supermercados, Doris Lessing vs. la Blogósfera y el video del árbol de Navidad laser.
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2.28 min. | 4.60 user rating		 Youtube prueba un sistema antipiratería mientras la FIFA no lo quiere ni ver, ingenioso astrofísico sustituye una supercomputadora ¡con 8 Playstation 3!, Doris Lessing y el hábito de leer y un perrito listo en una piscina. ¡Yo quiero uno!
6.07 min. | 4.5 user rating
What does the Internet do to your brain? Intellectuals and writers such as Doris Lessing, Brian Cathcart and Nicholas Carr argue that the web is making us stupider, killing our attention spans, and filling our brains with inanities. Jesse Brown proves these points by arguing against them.
2.97 min. | 4.6 user rating		 Interview with the 2007 Nobel Laureate in Literature Doris Lessing at her home in London, 14 April 2007. The interviewer is Professor John Mullan. Lessing comments on her early days as a writer and working on first book, 'The Grass is Singing'. For the complete interview, visit: nobelprize.org
2.27 min. | 4.87 user rating		 The Swedish Academy awards the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature to Doris Lessing. The citation: "that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny".
2.38 min. | 4.75 user rating		 An interview with author Doris Lessing and her translator, Krista Kaer. This clip is from a DVD published by nemcom.tv available from Amazon.
1.65 min. | 4.58 user rating		 Luciano Minerva intervista Doris Lessing, premiata dall'Accademia svedese con il Nobel Letteratura 2007 con questa motivazione: "questa cantrice dell'esperienza femminile, con scetticismo, passione e potere visionario ha messo sotto esame una civilta' divisa".
8.35 min. | 4.72 user rating

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The Quietus--Her music is harder to describe; for someone who cites Danielle Dax, Snakefinger, Peaches and the science-fiction writing of -Doris Lessing- as sources of inspiration, her new album has a distinctly otherworldly feel. It is wonderfully tongue - Date : Tue, 24 May 2011 10:45:36 GMT+00:00
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The Guardian--They quipped that they'd received messages of support from fans such as -Doris Lessing-, Harrison Birtwistle and The Krankies. Radcliffe said that BBC management had arrived on "a golden gondolier along the Ship Canal" - Date : Tue, 05 Apr 2011 07:00:56 GMT+00:00
Mad rantings about politics, evolution, and microbiology - ScienceBlogs (blog) Tweet this news
ScienceBlogs (blog)--What could have been a simple, barely noticed change in policy has galvanized librarians across the country, many of whom called the new rule unfair and vowed to boycott e-books from HarperCollins, the publisher of -Doris Lessing-, Sa - Date : Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:01:36 GMT+00:00
Lessing joins Jordan on Nibbies - The Bookseller Tweet this news
The Bookseller--Khaled Hosseini has scored a hat trick of shortlist slots for this year's Galaxy British Book Awards�the only author ever to do so�while -Doris Lessing- makes a first shortlist appearance and Katie Price, aka Jordan, gets a surprise n - Date : Mon, 21 Mar 2011 14:14:45 GMT+00:00
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The Guardian--Yet, for its author it was an "albatross", misunderstood by both its critics and admirers, and -Doris Lessing- was to spend half a century trying to shake off the mantle of "feminist icon", often gleefully - Date : Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:05:37 GMT+00:00
Harry Potter prequel at Waterstone's - The Bookseller Tweet this news
The Bookseller--campaign, to which 12 other authors have also donated story cards, including Sebastian Faulks, -Doris Lessing- and Neil Gaiman. Following the auction, copies of the cards will be available for view in Waterstone's stores and on its we - Date : Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:16:34 GMT+00:00
When Love Speaks, Edited By Adam O'Riordan - Independent Tweet this news
Independent--Among the poems, enjoy not just the likes of Donne, Hardy and Shakespeare but Cole Porter and Alice Oswald. The prose, selected with a keen roving eye, ranges from Dickens and Chesterton to -Doris Lessing- and Vita Sackville-West. ... - Date : Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:03:18 GMT+00:00
Homer Creative boosts academy's marketing - The Birmingham Post Tweet this news
The Birmingham Post---...- Lady Lovelace, daughter of the poet, mathematician, analyst and founder of scientific computing, Bert after Albert Einstein, Dot after -Doris Lessing-, ... - Date : Thu, 03 Feb 2011 11:24:35 GMT+00:00
Mark Lawson Named As New Chair Of Judges For David Cohen Prize For Literature - Booktrade.info Tweet this news
Booktrade.info--He joined a distinguished list of winners, including VS Naipaul, Harold Pinter, Muriel Spark, William Trevor, -Doris Lessing-, Beryl Bainbridge and Thom Gunn ... - Date : Fri, 21 Jan 2011 08:19:41 GMT+00:00
This Writing Life - Care2.com Tweet this news
Care2.com--I think of the writers who inspired me: -Doris Lessing- and The Golden Notebook, for example. But that is not the kind of book a CEO like me can publish. ... - Date : Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:18:26 GMT+00:00

Nobel Laureates in Literature

V. S. Naipaul (2001) * Imre Kertész (2002) * J. M. Coetzee (2003) * Elfriede Jelinek (2004) * Harold Pinter (2005) * Orhan Pamuk (2006) * Doris Lessing (2007) * Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio (2008) * Herta Müller (2009) *



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