Doris Lessing

Doris May Lessing CH (née Tayler; 22 October 1919 – 17 November 2013) wis a Breetish novelist, poet, playwricht, librettist, biografer an short story writer. Her novelles include The Grass is Singing (1950), the sequence o five novelles collectively cried Children of Violence (1952–69), The Golden Notebook (1962), The Good Terrorist (1985), an five novelles collectively kent as Canopus in Argos: Archives (1979–1983).

Doris Lessing
Lessing at the Lit Cologne leeterary festival in 2006
BornDoris May Tayler
22 October 1919(1919-10-22)
Kermanshah, Iran
Dee'd17 November 2013(2013-11-17) (aged 94)
Lunnon, Ingland
Pen nameJane Somers
ThriftWriter
NaitionalityBreetish
CeetizenshipUnitit Kinrick
Period1950–2013
GenreNovel, short story, biography, drama, libretto, poetry
Leeterar muivementModrenism, postmodrenism, Sufism, socialism, feminism, scepticism science feection
Notable warks
  • The Grass is Singing
  • Children of Violence series
  • The Golden Notebook
  • Briefing for a Descent into Hell
  • The Good Terrorist
Notable awairds
  • Somerset Maugham Awaird
    1954
  • Austrick State Prize for European Leeteratur
    1981
  • WH Smith Literary Awaird
    1986
  • Premio Grinzane Cavour
    1989
  • James Tait Black Memorial Prize
    1995
  • David Cohen Prize
    2001
  • Premio Príncipe de Asturias
    2001
  • Nobel Prize in Leeteratur
    2007
Spoose
  • Frank Charles Wisdom
    (m. 1939; div. 1943)
  • Gottfried Anton Nicolai Lessing
    (m. 1945; div. 1949)
BairnsJohn (b. 1939), Jean (b. 1943), Peter (b. 1947)
Wabsteid
www.dorislessing.org