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The Nobel Prize for Literature 2007
DORIS LESSING
Nobel Laureates In Literature – Suzan Adel
The Nobel Prize Medal for Literature
• Doris Lessing was born in Persia (now Iran) on October 22, 1919
• Both of her parents were British
• Lessing has described her childhood as an uneven mix of some pleasure and much pain
• The acclaimed first volume of her autobiography, Under My Skin (1994), won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for biography), and was followed by a second volume, Walking in the Shade: Volume II of My Autobiography 1949-1962 (1997).
PRIZES AND AWARDS
References• http://www.dorislessing.org/
• http://www.nobelprize.org/
• http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth60
Presented by: Suzan Adel [email protected]