A Nobel Prize to: Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing received the 2007 Nobel Prize in literature, she was born in Persia actual Iran, she descended from british parents in 1919. Her family moved to Southern Africa, where she spent her childhood on her father's farm in what was then Southern Rhodesia now called Zimbabwe. When her second marriage ended in 1949, she moved to London, where her first novel, The Grass is Singing, was published in 1950. The book explores the complacency and shallowness of white colonial society in Southern Africa and established Lessing as a talented young novelist. She is now widely regarded as one of the most important post-war writers in English. Her novels, short stories and essays have focused on a wide range of twentieth-century issues and concerns, from the politics of race that she confronted in her early novels set in Africa, to the politics of gender which lead to her adoption by the feminist movement, to the role of the family and the individual in society, explored in her space fiction of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Lessing will receive her prize, worth about $1.5-million, at a ceremony in December.

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