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Doris May Lessing CH OMG (née Tayler; 22 October 1919 – 17 November 2013) was a British-Zimbabwean 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 1937 to Salisbury, England, followed by London in 1949. Her novels include The Grass Is Singing (1950), the sequence of five novels collectively called Children of Violence (1952–1969), 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".[2] Lessing was the oldest person ever to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, at age 87.[3][4][5] In 2001 Lessing was awarded the David Cohen Prize for a

Doris Lessing - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia British novelist (1919–2013) Doris Lessing CH OMG Lessing in 2006 Born Doris May Tayler ( 1919-10-22 ) 22 October 1919 Kermanshah , Qajar Iran Died 17 November 2013 (2013-11-17) (aged 94) London, England Pen name Jane Somers Occupation Writer Nationality British Period 1950–2013 Genre Novel short story biography drama libretto poetry Literary movement Modernism postmodernism Sufism socialism feminism scepticism science fiction Notable works The Grass Is Singing Children of Violence series The Golden Notebook B

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