Author
Doris Lessing
October 22, 1919 – November 17, 2013 · United Kingdom
Writer, Poet, Novelist, Playwright, Autobiographer, Screenwriter, Essayist, Science fiction writer, Prose writer
Titles on list
1
Total weeks
11
Peak rank
#7
Biography
- Born
- October 22, 1919 · Kermanshah
- Died
- November 17, 2013 · London
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Gender
- Female
- Languages
- English
- Education
- Dominican Convent High School
Awards & Honours
- 1954Somerset Maugham Award
- 1976Prix Médicis étranger
- 1981Austrian State Prize for European Literature
- 1986WH Smith Literary Award
- 1987Trevi award
- 1989Grinzane Cavour Prize
- 1994Årets budeie
- 1995James Tait Black Memorial Prize
- 1999Catalonia International Prize
- 1999honorary doctorate
- 2001David Cohen Prize
- 2001Princess of Asturias Literary Prize
- 2007Nobel Prize in Literature
- 2008Gold Order of Mapungubwe
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
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