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Doris Lessing
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Doris Lessing

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Doris Lessing British author of Iranian birth who grew up in Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and whose 1962 novel "The Golden Notebook" is considered a masterpiece of feminist literature. Nobel Prize in Literature 2007, making her the oldest laureate ever at 88. Her works span science fiction, realism, and Sufi mysticism across 85 years of writing.

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Doris May Lessing was a British novelist – sometimes identified as Rhodesian early in her career – and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007.

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1910s
1919

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2026

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