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. She was born to British parents in Persia, where she lived until 1925. Her family then moved to Southern Rhodesia, where she remained until moving in 1949 to London, England. 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).