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birth
Doris Lessing, Doris May Tayler (Kermanshah; October 22, 1919-London; November 17, 2013), 1 who also published under the pseudonym Jane Somers, was a British writer, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007. -
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Biography
His father, Alfred, was a former British Army officer who served in World War I, in which he suffered a leg amputation. He married one of the nurses who cared for him, Emily. Transferred to Persia, now the Islamic Republic of Iran, for work reasons, Doris was born there and when she was already six years old, her family, attracted by the promises of making their fortune as farmers in British colonial Africa growing corn, tobacco and cereals, moved to South Rhodesia, -
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Literary work
Doris Lessing's work has a lot of autobiography and is often inspired by her African experience, her childhood and her vital, social and political disappointments, which made her a feminist, communist, pacifist and anti-colonialist. The themes embodied in his novels focus on cultural conflicts, the blatant injustices of racial inequality, the contradiction between individual conscience and the common good. It covers primarily fifty novels and a large number of short stories, -
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literary works
In 1962 she published her best known novel, The Golden Notebook, which catapulted her to fame, making her an icon of feminist demands. Outside of the social criticism of his first texts (Canta la herb, 1950, or the pentalogy Children of violence, 1952-1969), he also investigated the psychological and existential novel. In the aforementioned pentalogy, Children of Violence, perhaps her most ambitious work, narrates the search for identity of the literary double of the author, -
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Awards
Premio Somerset Maugham - 1954
Finalista en el Premio Booker - 1971
Prix Médicis de Francia - 1976
Premio Austriaco de Literatura Europea - 1982
Shakespeare Prize de la República Federal Alemana - 1982
Finalista en el Premio Booker - 1985
WH Smith Literary Award - 1986
Premio Internazionalle Mondello de Italia - 1986
Premio Palmero - 1987
Grinzane Cavour Prize (Premio Grinzane Cavour) de Italia - 1988
Premio Somerset Maugham - 1954
Finalista en el Premio Booker - 1971 -
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death
. His health deteriorated after suffering several strokes, so that he could no longer travel, and he died in London on November 17, 2013 at the age of 94.