Quick Facts About Doris Lessing
- Born
- October 22, 1919
- Died
- November 17, 2013
- Nationality
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Profession
- Science Fiction Writer
- Known for
- The Grass Is Singing, The Cleft, The Golden Notebook, The Memoirs of a Survivor, The Good Terrorist
- Spouse
- http://www.wikidata.org/.well-known/genid/cb68e1bbf73114578fc261139e70ff92
About Doris Lessing
Born to British parents in Qajar Iran, she lived there until age six in 1925 before moving to Southern Rhodesia, and later to London in 1949. Her notable works include The Grass Is Singing (1950), the Children of Violence series (1952–1969), The Golden Notebook (1962), The Good Terrorist (1985), and the Canopus in Argos series (1979–1983).
Awards & Honors
Nobel Prize in Literature
Catalonia International Prize
Somerset Maugham Award
James Tait Black Memorial Prize
Grinzane Cavour Prize
Austrian State Prize for European Literature
WH Smith Literary Award
Princess of Asturias Literary Prize
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Prix Médicis étranger
David Cohen Prize
honorary doctorate
Årets budeie
Order of Mapungubwe in Gold
Trevi award
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
