Special Women to Have Won the Nobel Prize with Their Remarkable Contributions

Doris Lessing

The late Doris Lessing was a visionary English poet, novelist, and playwright who had her first publication at age 15. Although she was born in Iran to British parents, she moved with her folks to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) before relocating to London in 1949. She wrote 50 books.

When awarding Lessing the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature, the laureate committee noted the epicist’s significant contribution to the female experience and her visionary power to subject the divided civilization to investigation. She was the oldest Nobel laureate in literature, best known for her five-novel sequence “Children of Violence,” “The Good Terrorist,” “The Golden Notebook,” and others.

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