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    Doris Lessing

    British novelist (–)

    Doris May LessingCHOMG (néeTayler; 22 October &#;– 17 November ) was a British novelist. She was born to British parents in Iran, where she lived until Her family then moved to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), where she remained until moving in to London, England. Her novels include The Grass Is Singing (), the sequence of five novels collectively called Children of Violence (–), The Golden Notebook (), The Good Terrorist (), and five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos: Archives (–).

    Lessing was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. In awarding the prize, the Swedish Academy described her as "that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny".[2] Lessing was the oldest person ever to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, at age [3][4][5]

    In Lessing was awarded the David Cohen Prize for a life

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    She also produced startling novels, such as the semi-autobiographical Children of Violence series and Briefing for a Descent into Hell (), a frightening and surreal examination of mental illness.

    More recently, Lessing produced novels like The Good Terrorist (), a satire on romantic politics, and The Fifth Child (), about the havoc wreaked on a family by an anti-social and violent child.

    Lessing said the book had been partly inspired bygd her own experience of giving birth at 19 and the woman in the next bed, already a mother of two girls, harshly rejecting the son she had just had.

    In October she became the oldest ever winner, and only the 11th woman in years, to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.

    "There's something abrasive in me because inom have often made people very cross," she once said.

    As a writer, however, it was important for her not to care what other people thought.

    "We are free I can say what I think. We are lucky, privile

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    Doris Lessing was born Doris May Tayler in Persia (now Iran) on October 22, Both of her parents were British: her father, who had been crippled in World War I, was a clerk in the Imperial Bank of Persia; her mother had been a nurse. In , lured by the promise of getting rich through maize farming, the family moved to the British colony in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Doris's mother adapted to the rough life in the settlement, energetically trying to reproduce what was, in her view, a civilized, Edwardian life among savages; but her father did not, and the thousand-odd acres of bush he had bought failed to yield the promised wealth.

    Lessing has described her childhood as an uneven mix of some pleasure and much pain. The natural world, which she explored with her brother, Harry, was one retreat from an otherwise miserable existence. Her mother, obsessed with raising a proper daughter, enforced a rigid system of rules and hygiene at home, then installed Doris in a convent school,

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