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'Scepticism, fire and visionary power': Lessing wins the Nobel literature prize
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Doris Lessing, the prolific and path-finding novelist whose
writing has for almost six decades captured the inner turmoil and
social transformations of a world in flux, has won this year's Nobel
Prize in Literature. Announcing its decision in Stockholm yesterday,
the Swedish Academy described the 87-year-old, Iranian-born British
author as an epic chronicler of female experience "who with
scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided
civilisation to scrutiny".
Lessing fo...
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; ... 87, hailed for her fire and skepticism Byline: MATT MOORE, AP, Rory Kress contributed to this report. Edition; Daily Section: News Page: 08 Friday, October 12, 2007 -- STOCKHOLM - Doris Lessing, author of dozens of works from short stories to science fiction ...
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A Companion to the Works of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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Doris Lessing wins the Nobel literature prize
Evening Standard - London
; BRITISH writer Doris Lessing today won the 2007 Nobel Prize for literature. The 87-year-old author, who lives in London, was described by the Swedish Nobel Academy as an "epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to
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