Doris Lessing
British author Doris Lessing has been awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature
Announcement of the Nobel Prize in Literature by Professor Horace Engdahl, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, on 11 October 2007.
"that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny"
Prize Announcement 
'The 87-year-old has been honoured with the 10m kronor (£763,000) award for her life's work over a 57-year career. Her best-known works include The Golden Notebook, Memoirs of a Survivor and The Summer Before the Dark.' Read on source : BBC News
Doris Lessing BBC interviews 
Doris Lessing's profile in BBC News
In her long and complex career, Doris Lessing, the winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in literature, has traversed the savannas of Africa, the crooked streets of London and the chilly reaches of outer space. Irving Howe once described her as “the archaeologist of human relations,” and she wrote persuasively about politics, feminism, Communism and black-white relations in Africa before moving on to explore the emotional crevices of the human psyche in her groundbreaking 1962 novel, “The Golden Notebook.”
Read on in the New York Times 
Her biography in Wikipedia
Biography and bibliography on the British Council site
A lesson plan in the New York Times Learning network
Overview of Lesson Plan:In this lesson, students consider female authors and their literature. They then each research and map the life and work of a particular Nobel Prize-winning female author, and write individual letters expressing their thoughts and admiration.
Women Nobel laureates
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