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.

Doris Lessing has written more than 20 novels, short stories, poetry, plays, two operas (with composer Philip Glass) non-fiction and two volumes of an autobiography Since 1901, the Nobel Prize in ...

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, 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 ...

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 ...

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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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LONDON (Reuters) - The novelist Doris Lessing, who tackled race, ideology, gender politics and the workings of the psyche in a prolific and often iconoclastic career, died in London on Sunday at the ...

It was announced on Thursday, October 11, 2007, that British writer Doris Lessing will be awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. She is the eleventh woman author to be awarded the prize since ...

Doris Lessing, the novelist who for six decades has been a fierce and wide-ranging chronicler of the rifts between men and women, black and white, and the self and society, has won the 2007 Nobel ...

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 ...