Doris Lessing Wins Prestigious Nobel Prize for Literature
Born in Persia in 1919, Doris Lessing lived much of her childhood in Zimbabwe. Considered one of the greatest literary figures of our time, she had been approached several times for the Nobel prize.
Author of forty novels, this writer committed to liberal ideas became known from his first opus, Defeated by the bush, in 1950. In 1976, she won the Foreign Medicis Award for her novel Golden book. She also published Memory of a Survivor, James Sommers Notebooks and The Promised City. His latest novel A child of love was released on September 3rd.
