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Doris Lessing

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Doris Lessing, CH (English: Doris Lessing, October 22, 1919 - November 17, 2013), a British writer, whose representative works include "The Golden Notebook" and so on. In 2007, she won the Nobel Prize for Literature, making her the oldest female Nobel laureate to date.

Category
Writers
Nationality
U.K.
Born
1919-10-22
Died
2013-11-17
Wikidata
Q40874
Occupations writerpoetnovelistplaywrightautobiographerscreenwriteressayistscience fiction writeressayist
Aliases Doris LessingDoris May LessingDoris May TaylerJane Somersdoris lessingdoris lessingDoris Lessing

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