The Nobel Prize in Literature 2007
Awarded on: 2007-10-11
"that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny"
Doris Lessing
Born: 1919-10-22 in Kermanshah, Persia (now Iran)
Gender: female
Field: British novelist (1919–2013)
Biography
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.