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
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About Doris Lessing
Doris May Lessing was a British novelist – sometimes identified as Rhodesian early in her career – and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007. Lessing was born to British parents in Qajar Iran, where she lived until she was 6 in 1925. Her family then moved to Southern Rhodesia, where she remained until moving to London, England, 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).
Biography source:
Wikipedia
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
