2007 Nobel Prize for Literature
The 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature goes to Doris Lessing, "that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny". From the Spring 2002 issue of Bookforum, Lisa Appignanesi interviews Doris Lessing: "Doris Lessing towers over the literature of the last half century. She has charted the lives and shaped the imaginations of successive generations with fiction that investigates the condition of women as well as the dynamics of political and sexual passion. She has dissected social movements, racial hatred, and madness, and has conjured future worlds bound by their own myths and religions"; and Bharati Mukherjee reviews The Sweetest Dream. From The Quotations Page, here are Doris Lessing quotes. And check out Doris Lessing: A Retrospective at dorislessing.org.
