Great Immortal Dead #024 - Doris Lessing

Remembering Doris Lessing

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British writer who also published under the pseudonym Jane Somers
The oldest writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature, a recognition that she herself referred to as "a damn disaster"

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Lessing's work addresses cultural conflicts and episodes of racial inequality inspired by the personal experience of her life in Africa.

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At 19 years old she had already written The Grass is Singing, but it was in 1962 when he published her most famous novel The Golden Notebook
Among other important titles such as the sequence of five novels called Children Of Violence or The Good Terrorist

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Doris Lessing 1919 - 2013

"Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible"

"That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way"

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Check out Doris Lessing: A Retrospective if you want to know more about Doris or her work

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