Doris Lessing emerged from a black cab outside her home in London one day in 2007 and was confronted by a horde of reporters. When told she had won the Nobel Prize, she blinked and retorted "Oh Christ ...

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Doris Lessing, the unconventional novelist who won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature, died on Sunday at her home in London, according to obituaries in The Guardian and The New York Times. She was 94.

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Close watchers of the Nobel Prize for Literature look at the selection process as a kind of geopolitical checkers match, as the Swedish Academy plucks major figures from the national literatures of ...

The Nobel Prizes are arguably the world’s most prestigious recognition anyone can receive for their work in the sciences, medicine, literature, or for world peace. For most winners, getting the call ...

Doris Lessing was one of the first literary authors to venture into science fiction. She wrote about aliens and space wars at a time when the genre was still shedding its embarrassing pulp tatters.

Last week, author Doris Lessing was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. The New York Times used the occasion of this award to point out the governments of Rhodesia and South Africa considered ...

LONDON - JANUARY 30: (EMBARGOED FOR PUBLICATION IN UK TABLOID NEWSPAPERS UNTIL 48 HOURS AFTER CREATE DATE AND TIME) Doris Lessing attends the reception hosted by Harpercollins and English Pen for ...

Doris Lessing, the Nobel Prize-winning author, died Sunday morning according her publisher, Harper Collins. Lessing, who produced 55 works, including poetry, operas and short stories, was 94 years old ...

During the 1970s, at the height of the feminist movement, Doris Lessing's novel The Golden Notebook became required reading for women's studies students. But despite writing one of the great feminist ...