October 22, 1919 Kermanshah, Iran
Died 17, 2013
She was a British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer. She wrote The Golden Notebook and The Grass is Singing. Doris Lessing was a Nobel Prize-Winner in Literature, Somerset Maugham Award and many more. Lessing was born in Iran and raised in Zimbabwe, the setting of her first novel The Grass Is Singing.
Lessing, who produced 55 works, including poetry, operas and short stories, was 94 years old.
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"Doris's long life and career was a great gift to world literature, She wrote across a variety of genres and made an enormous cultural impact. Probably she'll be most remembered for The Golden Notebook, which became a handbook to a whole generation, but her many books have spoken to us in so many various ways. Doris has been called a visionary and, to be in her company, which was a privilege I had as her editor towards the end of her writing life, was to experience something of that. Even in very old age she was always intellectually restless, reinventing herself, curious about the changing world around us, always completely inspirational. We'll miss her hugely."
Nicholas Pearson, editor at Harper Collins.
When given the Nobel Prize in Literature she said “Oh Christ” my kind of lady, I could not have said it better myself. She, will be missed especially her ability to say it how it is…..
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