2007 Nobel Prize for Literature about British writer Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing is "an epic writer who writes about the human experience of women, who, by skepticism, fire and clairvoyance, meticulously surveyed a divided civilization. '.

On October 11, the Swedish Academy announced the winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. It was Doris Lessing, the British female writer, born in 1919.

In the official comment, the Academy praised Lessing as ' an epic writer who writes about the human experience of a woman who, by skepticism, fire and clairvoyance, has Investigating a divided civilization ' (. that epicist of female experience, who with skepticism, fire and visionary power subjected to a divided civilization to scrutiny).

Doris Lessing was born in Persia (now Iran), father of a banker. She quit school at the age of fourteen, worked many jobs to live and had joined the Communist Party.

Her compositions can be divided into three phases: in the early stages (1944-1956) she focused on social issues from a radical point of view due to the influence of communism; in the second period (1956-1969) her main topic was human psychology; and at the third stage, called the sufi period (a mystical sect of Islam), she wrote a series of science fiction works on the theme of Canopus. After this period, she wrote in all three areas.

Mary Ann Singleton, the critic in The Fiction of Doris Lessing, The City and the Veld, 1977) wrote: "She [Lessing] is not only an artist, but also a critic and prophet, who Investigate the mistakes of a society "hypnotized by the idea of ​​fighting between good and evil" , and predict the disastrous consequences of these mistakes. solutions that can solve the world's problems ".

Although Doris Lessing is often considered a feminist writer, she herself does not like being labeled a feminist author. Although The Golden Notebook was praised by some critics as a representative work of feminism, she herself said that her most important work was the series. Canopus in Argos (Canopus in Argos), a science fiction work, published from 1979 to 1983). Some critics also consider this series of works, along with the semi-autobiographical novels Children of Violence, to be her key works, reflecting the image. the influence of sufi thought and interest in the unity of the soul with a Supreme Being (according to The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, Encyclopedia of Fiction by John Clute and Peter Nichols, 1993).

Before the Nobel Prize, Lessing was awarded the Somerset Maugham Award (1954), the Médicis Prize for foreign works (1976), Spain's Prince of Asturias (2001), as well as many other awards.

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