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22 October 1919 in Persia - 17 November 2013. British novelist, poet, librettist, journalist and Nobel Prize winner.

She was educated at the Dominican Convent High School in Salsbury, but left school early. Later she worked as nursemaid and telephone operator. She wrote many novels as for instance The Grass Is Singing (1950), The Golden Notebook (1962), The Good Terrorist (1985) or The Fifth Child (1988), The Summer Before the Dark (1973), Mara and Dann (1999).

Together with Simone de Beauvoir, she played an important part in the Women's Movement of the 1960s. In 1962 she published The Golden Notebook. This novel presents the us with the current socio-political problems of the time, and Lessing describes women's situation during this period.

In 2007 she won the Nobel Prize of Literature. Among other prizes she also received the Premio Principe de Asturias in 2001, the Prix Medici and the David Cohen Prize in 2001. During the 1980s Lessing tried to publish her novels under a pseudonym, Jane Somers. The reason for which she did this was to demonstrate how difficult it is for new authors to get their novels published.

Sources

http://www.dorislessing.org/

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2007/bio-bibl.html

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-Born 22 October 1919 (Persia) in Persia. British novelist, Moseley, Merritt, ''Understanding Julian Barnes'', [place??]: University of South Carolina Press, 1997. and Nobel Prize winner.
+October 1919 in Persia - 17 November 2013. British novelist, poet, librettist, journalist and Nobel Prize winner.
-Lessing lived in Persia during her childhood and then moved to Britain. She is  novelist, Moseley, Merritt, ''Understanding Julian Barnes'', [place??]: University of South Carolina Press, 1997.. She can be related to some monvements, such as Modernism, Postmodernism or Feminism.
+She was educated at the Dominican Convent High School in Salsbury, but left school early. Later she worked as nursemaid and telephone operator. She wrote many novels as for instance ''The Grass Is Singing'' (1950), ''The Golden Notebook'' (1962), ''The Good Terrorist'' (1985) or ''The Fifth Child'' (1988), ''The Summer Before the Dark'' (1973), ''Mara and Dann'' (1999).
+Together with Simone de Beauvoir, she played an important part in the Women's Movement of the 1960s. In 1962 she published ''The Golden Notebook''. This novel presents the us with the current socio-political problems of the time, and Lessing describes women's situation during this period.
-She was educated at the Dominican Convent High School in Salsbury,she left school and was self-edated. Later she worked as nursemaid and as a telephone operator. She wrote many novels as for instance ''The Grass Is Singing'' (1950), ''The Golden Notebook'' (1962), ''The Good Terrorist'' (1985) or ''The Fifth Child'' (1988), ''The Summer Before the Dark'' (1973),''Mara and Dann'' (1999).
+In 2007 she won the Nobel Prize of Literature. Among other prizes she also received the Premio Principe de Asturias in 2001, the Prix Medici and the David Cohen Prize in 2001. During the 1980s Lessing tried to publish her novels under a pseudonym, Jane Somers. The reason for which she did this was to demonstrate how difficult it is for new authors to get their novels published.
-Together with Simone de Beavoir who wrote ''The Second Sex'',she took part in the Women's Movent during the 60's. She published ''The Golden Notebook''. this novel presents the us with the current socio-plitical problems of the time, and Lessinf describes womens situation during this period.
+Sources
-In the year 2007 ahe won the Nobel Prize of Literature. Among other prices she received Premio Principe de Asturias in 2001, the Prix Medici and the David Cohen Prize in 2001. during a period of her live she tried to publish her novels under a pseudonym, Jane Somer.
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+http://www.dorislessing.org/
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+http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2007/bio-bibl.html
-*http://www.dorislessing.org/
-*http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2007/bio-bibl.html