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Doris Lessing, British novelist, poet, playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2013)
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Doris Lessing
British novelist (1919–2013)
Doris May Lessing was a British novelist and winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 2007. She was born to British parents in Persia, where she lived until 1925. Her family then moved to Southern Rhodesia, where she remained until moving in 1949 to London, England. Her…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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Prize established in 1895 by Alfred Nobel
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