Doris Lessing
22 October 1919 – 17 November 2013
Doris Lessing was a British novelist and short-story writer best known for works such as The Grass Is Singing and The Golden Notebook. Born in Persia and raised in Southern Rhodesia, she explored themes of colonialism, gender, and politics across a prolific career. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007.
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Life events
Doris May Tayler was born to British parents in Kermanshah, in what is now Iran.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHer family relocated to a farm in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) when she was a child.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe left Southern Rhodesia for London, where she pursued her literary career.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHer debut novel, set in Southern Rhodesia, established her literary reputation.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThis experimental novel became one of her most celebrated and influential works.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe began a series of speculative-fiction novels exploring social and cosmic themes.
She received the Nobel Prize as an epicist of the female experience.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgDoris Lessing died at her home in London at the age of 94.
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