Thursday, October 11, 2007

Doris Lessing Wins Nobel Prize in Literature

Breaking News AlertThe New York TimesThursday, October 11, 2007 -- 7:14 AM ET-----

Doris Lessing Wins Nobel Prize in Literature

The Swedish Academy said that the 87-year-old British author"has subjected a divided civilization to scrutiny" with"skepticism, fire and visionary power."

Read More:http://www.nytimes.com/?emc=na

3 comments:

Travis Erwin said...

Thanks for the link.

Stephen Parrish said...

The street I live on, Lessingstrasse, was named after her.

Unknown said...

i feel like, with all the English and Lit courses I have taken and all the reading I do, I should have read some of her stuff. When I saw the news about it, I searched a title list to see what of hers I had read and didn't recognize a single title. it's bizarre.