Sci-fi Writer Doris Lessing Won Nobel Prize
Doris Lessing has unquestionably been a prolific writer. During a career extending more than half a century, she's published some 50 novels, short-story collections and memoirs, either under her own name or the pseudonym, Jane Somers.
How much of that work is destined to endure is another matter and one sure to generate controversy over her selection Thursday as the 2007 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
In announcing the award, the Swedish Academy described Lessing as "that epicist of the female experience, who with skepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilization to scrutiny."
Just shy of her 88th birthday, Lessing is the oldest person ever to win the award, which brings with it a $1.6 million honorarium. Despite her age, she shows no signs of slowing. The Cleft, an alternative-world tale in which the original human stock was all female, appeared in July.
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How much of that work is destined to endure is another matter and one sure to generate controversy over her selection Thursday as the 2007 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
In announcing the award, the Swedish Academy described Lessing as "that epicist of the female experience, who with skepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilization to scrutiny."
Just shy of her 88th birthday, Lessing is the oldest person ever to win the award, which brings with it a $1.6 million honorarium. Despite her age, she shows no signs of slowing. The Cleft, an alternative-world tale in which the original human stock was all female, appeared in July.
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Read Interview with Doris Lessing
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