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The 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Doris Lessing. Lessing is the British author of such works as: The Grass is Singing, The Golden Notebook and Memoirs of a Survivor.
Doris Lessing
- Born: October 22, 1919, in Kermanshah, Persia
- First novel: The Grass is Singing published in 1950
- Her autobiography, Walking in the Shade was nominated for the 1997 National Book Critics Circle Award
- Announced that Alfred and Emily will be her final novelDoris Lessing: A Retrospective: Biography
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- "I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer."NobelPrize.org: Doris Lessing Bio — Doris Lessing
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