Postmodern
Doris Lessing
1919 – 2013
British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer, and short story writer (1919–2013)
- United Kingdom · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- British
- Postmodernism
- Feminist Writing
- literary-realism
- ◆ Nobel 2007
About
Doris May Lessing was a British novelist – sometimes identified as Rhodesian early in her career – and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007. Lessing was born to British parents in Qajar Iran, where she lived until she was 6 in 1925. Her family then moved to Southern Rhodesia, where she remained until moving to London, England, in 1949. Her novels include The Grass Is Singing (1950), the sequence of five novels collectively called Children of Violence (1952–1969), The Golden Notebook (1962), The Good Terrorist (1985), and five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos: Archives (1979–1983).
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