The Nobel Prize for Liberature has just been awarded to Doris Lessing, the Zimbabwean writer, now of Britain, born in what was then Persia (now Iran, in the city of Kermanshah) in 1919. Announcing the decision, Professor Horace Engdahl, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy described her fittingly as: … that epicist of the female [...]
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Doris Lessing awarded Nobel Prize
Posted in Iran, literature, Nobel Prize, Zimbabwe on October 11, 2007 | 1 Comment »