British writer Doris Lessing has won the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature. Lessing, 87, born to British parents who were living in what is now Iran, made her debut with "The Grass is Singing"(1950). Her other works include the semi-autobiographical "Children of Violence" series, largely set in Africa. Her breakthrough was the 1962 "Golden Notebook". "The burgeoning feminist movement saw it as a pioneering work and it belongs to the handful of books that inform the 20th century view of the male-female relationship," the Swedish Academy said in its citation announcing the prize.
Lessing's
other important novels include, "The Summer Before Dark" (1973), "The Fifth Child"(1988), "Mara and Dann(1999), "The Story of General Dann and Mara's Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog(2005).Lessing is the second British writer to win the Nobel Prize in three years. In 2005, Harold Pinter received the award. (AP)
Excerpt from The New Indian Express, Madurai, October 12, 2007
Further study:
http://www.bookmarksmagazine.com/doris-lessing-book-book-profile/jessica-teisch (Book by Book Profile)
http://wiredforbooks.org/dorislessing/ (Audio Interviews with Doris Lessing)
http://jco.usfca.edu/lessing.html (Joyce Carol Oates on Lessing)
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