Women Nobel Prize Winners for Literature 11 of 13 Doris Lessing
(2007) Doris Lessing is a British writer who is widely regarded
as one of the major writers of the mid-20th century and an
influential figure among feminists. Lessing writes on a wide
variety of themes: Rhodesia, women, communism, and animals.
Distinguished for its energy and intelligence, her work is
principally concerned with the lives of women – their
psychology, politics, work, relationship to men and to their
children, and their change of vision as they age. Fun Fact: She
was brought up on a farm in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). In
1949 she went to England, where her first novel, The Grass Is
Singing, was published (1950). Source: Columbia Encyclopedia.
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