Britain’s Lessing wins Nobel for literature
“This is such wonderful news. This is absolutely extraordinary”
British novelist Doris Lessing won the 2007 Nobel Prize for literature on Thursday for a body of work that looked unflinchingly at society’s ills and inspired a generation of feminist writers. via Reuters
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