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The Nobel Prize in Literature 2007

"that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny"
Doris Lessing
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Doris Lessing
United Kingdom
b. 1919
(in Kermanshah, Iran, then Persia)
 
 
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