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Doris Lessing

1919 - 17 November 2013

Doris May Lessing CH (née Tayler; born 22 October 1919) is a British writer, author of works such as the novels The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook.

In 2007, Lessing won the Nobel Prize in Literature. She was described by the Swedish Academy as "that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny". Lessing was the eleventh woman and the oldest person ever to win the Literature Prize.

In 2001, Lessing was awarded the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime's achievement in British Literature. In 2008, The Times ranked her fifth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".

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  • Cover of: Cuentos africanos, 1

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  • Cover of: Dans ma peau

    First published in 2000 1 edition — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Diana-Taschenbücher, Nr.65, Doris Lessings Katzenbuch

    First published in 1999 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Documents Relating To Sentimen (Canopus in Argos)

    First published in 1994 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Doris Lessing Reads

    First published in 1986 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Ecclesiastes

    First published in 1999 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: El Dia Que Murio Stalin

    First published in 2001 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: El Sueno Mas Dulce

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  • Cover of: El sueno mas dulce (Zeta Narrativa) (Zeta Narrativa)

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  • Cover of: Essential Doris Lessing CD: Excerpts from The Golden Notebook Read by the Author

    First published in 2007 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Gespräche.

    First published in 1999 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Herbstreise.

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  • Cover of: Hunger nach dem großen Leben. Erzählung.

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  • Cover of: Laocoon and Other Writings

    First published in 1959 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Les enfants de la violence

    First published in 1983 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: L'habitude d'aimer

    First published in 1994 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Los Matrimonios Entre Las Zonas 3 y 4

    First published in 2004 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Nebenerträge eines ehrbaren Berufs.

    First published in 1987 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Notre amie Judith

    First published in 1995 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Nouvelles africaines

    First published in 1990 1 edition
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Subjects
Fiction, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, short stories (single author), Fiction, general, Africa, fiction, English Short stories, Social life and customs, Women, Literature, Biography, British, English fiction, English literature, Lessing, doris, 1919-2013, New York Times reviewed, Cats, English Authors, London (england), fiction, Science fiction, English Novelists, Man-woman relationships, Manners and customs, Nonfiction, Readers (Secondary), Romans, nouvelles
Places
England, London (England), Zimbabwe, Africa, Great Britain, London, Southern Africa, Araby, Araby bazaar, North Richmond Street, South Africa, Angleterre, Ireland, New England, ying guo, Afghanistan, British, Carthage, Colchester (Angleterre), Dublin, Foreign countries, Galway, Inglaterra, Italy, Jefferson
People
Doris Lessing (1919-2013), Mangan's sister, Abner Snopes, Alfred Doolittle, Alonso, Antonio, Ariel, Bartell D'Arcy, Bartleby, Bill Hutchinson, Brently Mallard, Caliban, Ceres, Cicero, Colonel Pickering, Colonel Sartoris, Devil, Eliza Doolittle, Emily Grierson, Emily Maude Lessing, Ernest Valdemar, Faith Brown, Ferdinand, Freddy Eynsford Hill, Freddy Malins
Time
20th century, 1945-, 19th century, xian dai, 1600s, 1890-1965, 1912, 192, 1980-, 1982, Antebellum era, Set in the far off future in a world back to the stone age, Soviet occupation, 1979-1989

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Alternative names

  • Somers Jane
  • Doris May Lessing
  • D. Lessing
  • Dorris Lessing
  • Dois Lessing
  • D Lessing
  • Jane Somers

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December 15, 2023 Edited by Gustav-Landauer-Bibliothek Witten name
December 15, 2023 Edited by Gustav-Landauer-Bibliothek Witten merge authors
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April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import