British author Doris Lessing
British Nobel Prize winning author Doris Lessing has passed away at age 94 in London on November 17.
Doris Lessing was a novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer. Born in 1919 in Persia, Iran, she moved to Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, as a child before settling in England in 1949.
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″.
In 1962, she made her breakthrough with “The Golden Notebook”, which made her famous in literary circles around the world. Her other best-known works include “The Summer Before Dark” (1973), “Memoirs of a Survivor” (1974), and “The Fifth Child” (1988).
In 2007, the 88-year-old Lessing became the oldest author, and only the 11th woman, to be awarded the Nobel Prize for 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 civilization to scrutiny”./.
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