Doris Lessing

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Doris May Lessing CH OMG (née Tayler; 22 October 1919 – 17 November 2013) was a British novelist. She was born to British parents in Iran, where she lived until 1925. Her family then moved to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), where she remained until moving in 1949 to London, England. Her novels include The Grass Is Singing (1950), the sequence of five novels collectively called Children of Violence (1952–1969), The Golden Notebook (1962), The Good Terrorist (1985), and five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos: Archives (1979–1983). Lessing was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Litera…

  • Writing
  • Born 22 October 1919
  • Died 17 November 2013 (age 94)
  • Kermanshah, Persia [now Iran]
  • 12 credits

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Most-watched Doris Lessing films currently: Adoration (2013), Memoirs of a Survivor (1981), How Proust Can Change Your Life (2000), The Grass Is Singing (1981), My Friend Victoria (2014).

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Selected TV credits: Theatre 625 (1964), Apostrophes (1975), Omnibus (1967), Timeshift (2002), Studio 4 (1962).

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