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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…
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Nobel Prize in Literature

Prize established in 1895 by Alfred Nobel

The Nobel Prize in Literature, here meaning for Literature, is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, "in the field of literature, produced the most…
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October 22

Day of the year

October 22 is the 295th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 70 days remain until the end of the year.
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