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Doris May Lessing CH OMG ( née Tayler; 22 October 1919 – 17 November 2013) was a British novelist. She was born to British parents in Iran, where she lived until 1925. Her family then moved to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe ), where she remained until moving in 1949 to London, England. Her novels include The Grass Is Singing (1950), the ...
Doris Lessing (born October 22, 1919, Kermānshāh, Persia [now Iran]—died November 17, 2013, London, England) was a British writer whose novels and short stories are largely concerned with people involved in the social and political upheavals of the 20th century. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007.
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Learn about the life and works of Doris Lessing, the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Golden Notebook and other novels. Explore her childhood in Persia and Rhodesia, her political activism, her literary experiments, and her themes of identity and freedom.
In 2001 she received the David Cohen British Literature Prize. In 2007, Doris Lessing was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. On Not Winning the Nobel Prize (2008) is the full text of the lecture she gave to the Swedish Academy when accepting the prize. She died in 2013, aged 94.
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Doris Lessing Biography: Doris Lessing was born in Persia (now Iran), when her father worked for a bank. In 1924, the family moved to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), where she grew up, as her father tried to make a living as a farmer.
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Nov 17, 2013 · Her family later moved to Southern Rhodesia in 1925. Doris Lessing attended a convent school and a girls' school, but ended her studies at age 14 and moved from home. She went on to work as a nursemaid, telephonist, stenographer, and journalist, and published a few short stories. Lessing moved to London in 1949.
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