Novelist and 2007 winner of Nobel Prize
for Literature, Doris Lessing dies on Sunday, in London at the age of 94.
Lessing
was the 11th woman to have won the Nobel Prize for Literature. She was born of
British parents October 22, 1919 in the old Persia (now Iran) and raised in the
pre-Zimbabwean period of Rhodesia.
At 30, after relocating to the U.K, Lessing
published her debut book The Grass Is Singing" and made a huge success of
it. Lessing’s works, mostly are set in Africa and published between the 1950s and early 1960s.
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