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Oct. 11 - British novelist Doris Lessing reacted with the words 'Oh Christ!' when told by a Reuters correspondent that she'd won the 2007 Nobel Prize for literature. Lessing gave her reaction as she returned to her home in London soon after the award was announced. According to her agent she missed the actual announcement as she had been out shopping.
- published: 12 Oct 2007
- views: 307777
An interview with author Doris Lessing and her translator, Krista Kaer. This clip is from a DVD published by nemcom.tv available from Amazon.
- published: 13 Feb 2008
- views: 40212
Doris May Lessing CH (née Tayler; 22 October 1919 -- 17 November 2013) was a British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer. Her novels include The Grass is Singing (1950), the sequence of five novels collectively called Children of Violence (1952--69), 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 Literature. In awarding the prize, the Swedish Academy described her as "that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny". Lessing was the eleventh woman and the oldest person ever to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
In 2001, Lessing was awarded the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime's achievement in British literature. In 2008, The Times ranked her fifth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
Lessing's fiction is commonly divided into three distinct phases: the Communist theme (1944--56), when she was writing radically on social issues (to which she returned in The Good Terrorist [1985]); the psychological theme (1956--1969); and after that the Sufi theme, which was explored in the Canopus in Argos sequence of science fiction (or as she preferred to put it "space fiction") novels and novellas. Doris Lessing's first novel The Grass Is Singing, the first four volumes of The Children of Violence sequence, as well as the collection of short stories African Stories are set in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).
Lessing's Canopus sequence was not popular with many mainstream literary critics. For example, in the New York Times in 1982 John Leonard wrote in reference to The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 that "[o]ne of the many sins for which the 20th century will be held accountable is that it has discouraged Mrs. Lessing... She now propagandises on behalf of our insignificance in the cosmic razzmatazz,"[40] to which Lessing replied: "What they didn't realise was that in science fiction is some of the best social fiction of our time. I also admire the classic sort of science fiction, like Blood Music, by Greg Bear. He's a great writer."[41] Unlike some authors primarily known for their mainstream work, she never hesitated to admit that she wrote science fiction and attended the 1987 World Science Fiction Convention as its Writer Guest of Honor. Here she made a speech in which she described her dystopian novel Memoirs of a Survivor as "an attempt at an autobiography."[42]
The Canopus in Argos novels present an advanced interstellar society's efforts to accelerate the evolution of other worlds, including Earth. Using Sufi concepts, to which Lessing had been introduced in the mid-1960s by her "good friend and teacher" Idries Shah,[39] the series of novels also utilises an approach similar to that employed by the early 20th century mystic G. I. Gurdjieff in his work All and Everything. Earlier works of "inner space" fiction like Briefing for a Descent into Hell (1971) and Memoirs of a Survivor (1974) also connect to this theme. Lessing's interest had turned to Sufism after coming to the realisation that Marxism ignored spiritual matters, leaving her disillusioned.[43]
Lessing's novel The Golden Notebook is considered a feminist classic by some scholars,[44] but notably not by the author herself, who later wrote that its theme of mental breakdowns as a means of healing and freeing one's self from illusions had been overlooked by critics. She also regretted that critics failed to appreciate the exceptional structure of the novel. She explained in Walking in the Shade that she modelled Molly partly on her good friend Joan Rodker, the daughter of the modernist poet and publisher John Rodker.[45]
Lessing did not like being pigeonholed as a feminist author. When asked why, she explained:
What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness. What they would really like me to say is, 'Ha, sisters, I stand with you side by side in your struggle toward the golden dawn where all those beastly men are no more.' Do they really want people to make oversimplified statements about men and women? In fact, they do. I've come with great regret to this conclusion.
—Doris Lessing, The New York Times, 25 July 1982
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Lessing
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- published: 04 Jan 2014
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Lessing moved to London in 1949 with her youngest son, Peter, to pursue her writing career and communist beliefs, but left the two elder children with their father in South Africa. She later said that at the time she saw no choice: "For a long time I felt I had done a very brave thing. There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children. I felt I wasn't the best person to bring them up. I would have ended up an alcoholic or a frustrated intellectual like my mother." As well as campaigning against nuclear arms, she was an active opponent of apartheid which led in 1956 to being banned from South Africa and Rhodesia for many years. In the same year, following the Soviet invasion of Hungary, she left the British Communist Party.
Lessing first sold stories to magazines at the age of 15, in South Africa.[18] Her first novel, The Grass Is Singing, was published in 1950.[11] Her breakthrough work, The Golden Notebook, was written in 1962.[10] By the time of her death, more than 50 of her novels had been published.[19]
In 1982, Lessing tried to publish two novels under a pseudonym, Jane Somers, to show the difficulty new authors faced in trying to have their works in print. The novels were declined by Lessing's UK publisher, but were later accepted by another English publisher, Michael Joseph, and in the US by Alfred A. Knopf. The Diary of a Good Neighbour[20] was published in Britain and the US in 1983, and If the Old Could in both countries in 1984,[21] both as written by Jane Somers. In 1984, both novels were re-published in both countries (Viking Books publishing in the US), this time under one cover, with the title The Diaries of Jane Somers: The Diary of a Good Neighbour and If the Old Could, listing Doris Lessing as author.[22]
Lessing declined a damehood in 1992 for it being in the name of a non-existent Empire; also declined appointment as OBE in 1977.[23] Later she accepted appointment as a Companion of Honour at the end of 1999 for "conspicuous national service".[24] She was also made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature.[25]
In 2007, Lessing was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.[26][27] She received the prize at the age of 88 years 52 days, making her the oldest winner of the literature prize at the time of the award and the third-oldest Nobel laureate in any category (after Leonid Hurwicz and Raymond Davis Jr.).[28][29] She also was only the 11th woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature by the Swedish Academy in its 106-year history.[30] Lessing was out shopping for groceries when the announcement came, arriving home to tell reporters who had gathered there, "Oh Christ!"[31] She told reporters outside her home, "I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one, so I'm delighted to win them all. It's a royal flush."[32] She titled her Nobel Lecture On Not Winning the Nobel Prize and used it to draw attention to global inequality of opportunity, and to explore changing attitudes to storytelling and literature. The lecture was later published in a limited edition to raise money for children made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS. In a 2008 interview for the BBC's Front Row, she stated that increased media interest after the award had left her without time or energy for writing.[33] Her final book, Alfred and Emily, appeared in 2008.
A 2010 BBC radio documentary titled Useful Idiots listed among "useful idiots" of Joseph Stalin several prominent British writers, including Doris Lessing.
Lessing's fiction is commonly divided into three distinct phases: the Communist theme (1944–56), when she was writing radically on social issues (to which she returned in The Good Terrorist [1985]); the psychological theme (1956–1969); and after that the Sufi theme, which was explored in the Canopus in Argos sequence of science fiction (or as she preferred to put it "space fiction") novels and novellas. Doris Lessing's first novel The Grass Is Singing, the first four volumes of The Children of Violence sequence, as well as the collection of short stories African Stories are set in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Lessing
- published: 14 Oct 2014
- views: 2255
Doris Lessing reading from her 1971 article, "An Ancient Way to New Freedom".
Doris Lessing leyendo de su artículo "Un antiguo camino hacia una nueva libertad".
- published: 19 Dec 2012
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Bill also reflects on his conversation a decade ago with Nobel-prize winning novelist Doris Lessing who passed away earlier this week in London at the age of 94.
When Bill asks Lessing, whose literary career spanned six decades, if she ever stops writing this is how she answered: "No, I'm compulsive and I deeply think that it has to be something very neurotic. And I'm not joking, it has to be. Because if I've finished a book and this wonderful release, which I'm now feeling; it's off, it's in a parcel, it's gone to a publisher. Bliss and happiness. I don't have to do anything, nothing — I can just sit around. But, suddenly it starts, you see. This terrible feeling that I am just wasting my life."
- published: 22 Nov 2013
- views: 4959
2008 träffade Malou von Sivers Nobelpristagaren Doris Lessing i hennes hem i norra London och gjorde en intervju med den kärva författaren, som berättade att många missförstått vissa av hennes böcker.
- published: 18 Nov 2013
- views: 538
Leading artists, writers, musicians and directors took part in the Serpentine's first 24-hour Interview Marathon in the park. Developed and hosted by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Rem Koolhaas. The event was recorded on in-built CCTV cameras and originally displayed on plasma screens built into the walls of the 2006 Pavilion. Please be aware that the CCTV footage has a grainy quality, which was part of the original concept devised by Rem Koolhaas and Hans Ulrich Obrist.
- published: 16 Dec 2015
- views: 244
Doris Lessing shares anecdotes from her life as a writer. She was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. More about Doris Lessing at http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2007/lessing-facts.html
- published: 21 Nov 2013
- views: 3707
Doris May Lessing CH (née Tayler; born 22 October 1919) is a Zimbabwean-British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer. Her novels include The Grass Is Singing, The Golden Notebook, The Good Terrorist, and five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos.
Lessing was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. In doing so the Swedish Academy described her as "that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny". Lessing was the eleventh woman and the oldest ever person to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
In 2001, Lessing was awarded the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime's achievement in British Literature. In 2008, The Times ranked her fifth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
Lessing was born in Iran, then known as Persia, on 22 October 1919, to Captain Alfred Tayler and Emily Maude Tayler (née McVeagh), who were both English and of British nationality. Her father, who had lost a leg during his service in World War I, met his future wife, a nurse, at the Royal Free Hospital where he was recovering from his amputation. Alfred Tayler and his wife moved to Kermanshah, Iran, in order to take up a job as a clerk for the Imperial Bank of Persia and it was here that Doris was born in 1919. The family then moved to the British colony of Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 1925 to farm maize, among other plants, when her father purchased around one thousand acres of bush. Lessing's mother attempted to lead an Edwardian lifestyle amidst the rough environment, which would have been easy had the family been wealthy; in reality, such a lifestyle was not feasible. The farm failed to deliver any monetary value in return .
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60:38Doris Lessing - The Reluctant Heroine
Doris Lessing - The Reluctant HeroineDoris Lessing - The Reluctant Heroine
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2:24British author Doris Lessing reacts to Nobel win
British author Doris Lessing reacts to Nobel winBritish author Doris Lessing reacts to Nobel win
Oct. 11 - British novelist Doris Lessing reacted with the words 'Oh Christ!' when told by a Reuters correspondent that she'd won the 2007 Nobel Prize for literature. Lessing gave her reaction as she returned to her home in London soon after the award was announced. According to her agent she missed the actual announcement as she had been out shopping. -
1:39Doris Lessing talking about writing
Doris Lessing talking about writingDoris Lessing talking about writing
An interview with author Doris Lessing and her translator, Krista Kaer. This clip is from a DVD published by nemcom.tv available from Amazon. -
52:53Doris Lessing on Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949 to 1962 (1997)
Doris Lessing on Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949 to 1962 (1997)Doris Lessing on Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949 to 1962 (1997)
Doris May Lessing CH (née Tayler; 22 October 1919 -- 17 November 2013) was a British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer. Her novels include The Grass is Singing (1950), the sequence of five novels collectively called Children of Violence (1952--69), 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 Literature. In awarding the prize, the Swedish Academy described her as "that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny". Lessing was the eleventh woman and the oldest person ever to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. In 2001, Lessing was awarded the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime's achievement in British literature. In 2008, The Times ranked her fifth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". Lessing's fiction is commonly divided into three distinct phases: the Communist theme (1944--56), when she was writing radically on social issues (to which she returned in The Good Terrorist [1985]); the psychological theme (1956--1969); and after that the Sufi theme, which was explored in the Canopus in Argos sequence of science fiction (or as she preferred to put it "space fiction") novels and novellas. Doris Lessing's first novel The Grass Is Singing, the first four volumes of The Children of Violence sequence, as well as the collection of short stories African Stories are set in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Lessing's Canopus sequence was not popular with many mainstream literary critics. For example, in the New York Times in 1982 John Leonard wrote in reference to The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 that "[o]ne of the many sins for which the 20th century will be held accountable is that it has discouraged Mrs. Lessing... She now propagandises on behalf of our insignificance in the cosmic razzmatazz,"[40] to which Lessing replied: "What they didn't realise was that in science fiction is some of the best social fiction of our time. I also admire the classic sort of science fiction, like Blood Music, by Greg Bear. He's a great writer."[41] Unlike some authors primarily known for their mainstream work, she never hesitated to admit that she wrote science fiction and attended the 1987 World Science Fiction Convention as its Writer Guest of Honor. Here she made a speech in which she described her dystopian novel Memoirs of a Survivor as "an attempt at an autobiography."[42] The Canopus in Argos novels present an advanced interstellar society's efforts to accelerate the evolution of other worlds, including Earth. Using Sufi concepts, to which Lessing had been introduced in the mid-1960s by her "good friend and teacher" Idries Shah,[39] the series of novels also utilises an approach similar to that employed by the early 20th century mystic G. I. Gurdjieff in his work All and Everything. Earlier works of "inner space" fiction like Briefing for a Descent into Hell (1971) and Memoirs of a Survivor (1974) also connect to this theme. Lessing's interest had turned to Sufism after coming to the realisation that Marxism ignored spiritual matters, leaving her disillusioned.[43] Lessing's novel The Golden Notebook is considered a feminist classic by some scholars,[44] but notably not by the author herself, who later wrote that its theme of mental breakdowns as a means of healing and freeing one's self from illusions had been overlooked by critics. She also regretted that critics failed to appreciate the exceptional structure of the novel. She explained in Walking in the Shade that she modelled Molly partly on her good friend Joan Rodker, the daughter of the modernist poet and publisher John Rodker.[45] Lessing did not like being pigeonholed as a feminist author. When asked why, she explained: What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness. What they would really like me to say is, 'Ha, sisters, I stand with you side by side in your struggle toward the golden dawn where all those beastly men are no more.' Do they really want people to make oversimplified statements about men and women? In fact, they do. I've come with great regret to this conclusion. —Doris Lessing, The New York Times, 25 July 1982 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Lessing Image By Elke Wetzig (elya) (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html), CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) or CC-BY-SA-2.5-2.0-1.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5-2.0-1.0)], via Wikimedia Commons -
52:55Doris Lessing's Sentimental Education: Social History & Intellectual Life of the 1950s (1997)
Doris Lessing's Sentimental Education: Social History & Intellectual Life of the 1950s (1997)Doris Lessing's Sentimental Education: Social History & Intellectual Life of the 1950s (1997)
Lessing moved to London in 1949 with her youngest son, Peter, to pursue her writing career and communist beliefs, but left the two elder children with their father in South Africa. She later said that at the time she saw no choice: "For a long time I felt I had done a very brave thing. There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children. I felt I wasn't the best person to bring them up. I would have ended up an alcoholic or a frustrated intellectual like my mother." As well as campaigning against nuclear arms, she was an active opponent of apartheid which led in 1956 to being banned from South Africa and Rhodesia for many years. In the same year, following the Soviet invasion of Hungary, she left the British Communist Party. Lessing first sold stories to magazines at the age of 15, in South Africa.[18] Her first novel, The Grass Is Singing, was published in 1950.[11] Her breakthrough work, The Golden Notebook, was written in 1962.[10] By the time of her death, more than 50 of her novels had been published.[19] In 1982, Lessing tried to publish two novels under a pseudonym, Jane Somers, to show the difficulty new authors faced in trying to have their works in print. The novels were declined by Lessing's UK publisher, but were later accepted by another English publisher, Michael Joseph, and in the US by Alfred A. Knopf. The Diary of a Good Neighbour[20] was published in Britain and the US in 1983, and If the Old Could in both countries in 1984,[21] both as written by Jane Somers. In 1984, both novels were re-published in both countries (Viking Books publishing in the US), this time under one cover, with the title The Diaries of Jane Somers: The Diary of a Good Neighbour and If the Old Could, listing Doris Lessing as author.[22] Lessing declined a damehood in 1992 for it being in the name of a non-existent Empire; also declined appointment as OBE in 1977.[23] Later she accepted appointment as a Companion of Honour at the end of 1999 for "conspicuous national service".[24] She was also made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature.[25] In 2007, Lessing was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.[26][27] She received the prize at the age of 88 years 52 days, making her the oldest winner of the literature prize at the time of the award and the third-oldest Nobel laureate in any category (after Leonid Hurwicz and Raymond Davis Jr.).[28][29] She also was only the 11th woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature by the Swedish Academy in its 106-year history.[30] Lessing was out shopping for groceries when the announcement came, arriving home to tell reporters who had gathered there, "Oh Christ!"[31] She told reporters outside her home, "I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one, so I'm delighted to win them all. It's a royal flush."[32] She titled her Nobel Lecture On Not Winning the Nobel Prize and used it to draw attention to global inequality of opportunity, and to explore changing attitudes to storytelling and literature. The lecture was later published in a limited edition to raise money for children made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS. In a 2008 interview for the BBC's Front Row, she stated that increased media interest after the award had left her without time or energy for writing.[33] Her final book, Alfred and Emily, appeared in 2008. A 2010 BBC radio documentary titled Useful Idiots listed among "useful idiots" of Joseph Stalin several prominent British writers, including Doris Lessing. Lessing's fiction is commonly divided into three distinct phases: the Communist theme (1944–56), when she was writing radically on social issues (to which she returned in The Good Terrorist [1985]); the psychological theme (1956–1969); and after that the Sufi theme, which was explored in the Canopus in Argos sequence of science fiction (or as she preferred to put it "space fiction") novels and novellas. Doris Lessing's first novel The Grass Is Singing, the first four volumes of The Children of Violence sequence, as well as the collection of short stories African Stories are set in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Lessing -
23:35Doris Lessing about the Sufi Way con Subtítulos en Español.
Doris Lessing about the Sufi Way con Subtítulos en Español.Doris Lessing about the Sufi Way con Subtítulos en Español.
Doris Lessing reading from her 1971 article, "An Ancient Way to New Freedom". Doris Lessing leyendo de su artículo "Un antiguo camino hacia una nueva libertad". -
5:31A Tribute to Doris Lessing
A Tribute to Doris LessingA Tribute to Doris Lessing
Bill also reflects on his conversation a decade ago with Nobel-prize winning novelist Doris Lessing who passed away earlier this week in London at the age of 94. When Bill asks Lessing, whose literary career spanned six decades, if she ever stops writing this is how she answered: "No, I'm compulsive and I deeply think that it has to be something very neurotic. And I'm not joking, it has to be. Because if I've finished a book and this wonderful release, which I'm now feeling; it's off, it's in a parcel, it's gone to a publisher. Bliss and happiness. I don't have to do anything, nothing — I can just sit around. But, suddenly it starts, you see. This terrible feeling that I am just wasting my life." -
9:18Malou intervjuade Doris Lessing i London 2008
Malou intervjuade Doris Lessing i London 2008Malou intervjuade Doris Lessing i London 2008
2008 träffade Malou von Sivers Nobelpristagaren Doris Lessing i hennes hem i norra London och gjorde en intervju med den kärva författaren, som berättade att många missförstått vissa av hennes böcker. -
19:45Interview Marathon 2006: Doris Lessing
Interview Marathon 2006: Doris LessingInterview Marathon 2006: Doris Lessing
Leading artists, writers, musicians and directors took part in the Serpentine's first 24-hour Interview Marathon in the park. Developed and hosted by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Rem Koolhaas. The event was recorded on in-built CCTV cameras and originally displayed on plasma screens built into the walls of the 2006 Pavilion. Please be aware that the CCTV footage has a grainy quality, which was part of the original concept devised by Rem Koolhaas and Hans Ulrich Obrist. -
2:46Doris Lessing on her writing career
Doris Lessing on her writing careerDoris Lessing on her writing career
Doris Lessing shares anecdotes from her life as a writer. She was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. More about Doris Lessing at http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2007/lessing-facts.html
- Agota Kristof
- AIDS
- Al Gore
- Albert Fert
- Aleksandar Tišma
- Alexandra Fuller
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Alfred and Emily
- All and Everything
- Amputation
- Andrzej Szczypiorski
- Antonio Tabucchi
- António Lobo Antunes
- Authority control
- BBC
- Blood Music (novel)
- Book sales club
- British Literature
- Brontë sisters
- Canopus in Argos
- Cees Nooteboom
- Charlie Adlard
- Chinghiz Aitmatov
- Christa Wolf
- Christina Stead
- Christoph Hein
- Claudio Magris
- Convent
- D. H. Lawrence
- David Cohen Prize
- Doris Lessing
- Dostoyevsky
- Dubravka Ugrešić
- Dystopian
- East Germany
- Edwardian
- Elaine Showalter
- Elfriede Jelinek
- Erica Jong
- Eugène Ionesco
- Evolution
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt
- Front Row (radio)
- Fulvio Tomizza
- G. I. Gurdjieff
- Gerhard Ertl
- Gottfried Lessing
- Graphic novel
- Greg Bear
- Hand rankings
- Harare
- Harold Pinter
- HarperCollins
- Helmut Heißenbüttel
- Herta Müller
- Idi Amin Dada
- Idries Shah
- Ilse Aichinger
- Imre Kertész
- Inger Christensen
- Iran
- Italo Calvino
- J. M. Coetzee
- J. M. G. Le Clézio
- Jan Hanford
- Javier Marías
- Joan Rodker
- Joanna Russ
- John Rodker
- Jorge Semprún
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Julian Barnes
- Jürg Laederach
- Kermanshah
- Knight
- Left Book Club
- Leonid Hurwicz
- Libretto
- Literary critic
- Mainstream
- Margaret Atwood
- Marge Piercy
- Marguerite Duras
- Mario Capecchi
- Mario Vargas Llosa
- Martin Evans
- Mikhail Bulgakov
- Milan Kundera
- Modernism
- Name Authority File
- Nan Bentzen Skille
- Newsweek
- Nobel Peace Prize
- Nobel Prize
- Nursemaid
- Octavia Butler
- Olaf Stapledon
- Olive Schreiner
- Oliver Smithies
- Orhan Pamuk
- Paul Nizon
- Pavel Kohout
- Per Olov Enquist
- Peter Grünberg
- Peter Huchel
- Philip Glass
- Portal Novels
- Portal Opera
- Portal Poetry
- Portal Psychology
- Portal Sufism
- Postmodernism
- Prix Médicis
- Progressor
- Psychology
- Péter Nádas
- Raymond Davis Jr.
- Rebellion
- Retreat to Innocence
- Royal Free Hospital
- Salman Rushdie
- Sarah Kirsch
- Sartre
- SELIBR
- Shikasta
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Simoun (anime)
- Single-sex school
- Social fiction
- Sociology
- Southern Rhodesia
- Stanisław Lem
- Stendhal
- Sufi
- Sufism
- Swedish Academy
- Sándor Weöres
- Sławomir Mrożek
- Tadeusz Różewicz
- Telephone operator
- The Cleft
- The Fifth Child
- The Four-Gated City
- The Golden Notebook
- The Good Terrorist
- The Grass Is Singing
- The New York Times
- The Sweetest Dream
- The Times
- Through the Tunnel
- Tomas Tranströmer
- Toni Morrison
- Uganda
- Umberto Eco
- Under My Skin (book)
- University of Tulsa
- Uplift Universe
- V. S. Naipaul
- Vasko Popa
- Viking Books
- Virginia Woolf
- Václav Havel
- W. H. Auden
- Wikipedia Persondata
- Zbigniew Herbert
- Zimbabwe
- Agota Kristof
- Al Gore
- Albert Fert
- Aleksandar Tišma
- Alexandra Fuller
- Andrzej Szczypiorski
- Antonio Tabucchi
- António Lobo Antunes
- Cees Nooteboom
- Charlie Adlard
- Chinghiz Aitmatov
- Christa Wolf
- Christina Stead
- Christoph Hein
- Claudio Magris
- Doris Lessing
- Dubravka Ugrešić
- Elaine Showalter
- Elfriede Jelinek
- Erica Jong
- Eugène Ionesco
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt
- Fulvio Tomizza
- Gerhard Ertl
- Gottfried Lessing
- Greg Bear
- Harold Pinter
- Helmut Heißenbüttel
- Herta Müller
- Idries Shah
- Ilse Aichinger
- Imre Kertész
- Inger Christensen
- Italo Calvino
- Jan Hanford
- Javier Marías
- Joan Rodker
- Joanna Russ
- John Rodker
- Jorge Semprún
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Julian Barnes
- Jürg Laederach
- Leonid Hurwicz
- Margaret Atwood
- Marge Piercy
- Marguerite Duras
- Mario Capecchi
- Mario Vargas Llosa
- Martin Evans
- Mikhail Bulgakov
- Milan Kundera
- Nan Bentzen Skille
- Olaf Stapledon
- Olive Schreiner
- Oliver Smithies
- Orhan Pamuk
- Paul Nizon
- Pavel Kohout
- Per Olov Enquist
- Peter Grünberg
- Peter Huchel
- Philip Glass
- Péter Nádas
- Salman Rushdie
- Sarah Kirsch
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Stanisław Lem
- Stendhal
- Sándor Weöres
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'Doris Lessing' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:
Meine bezaubernde Feindin (2006)
Actors: Peter Sattmann (actor), Pimes Doerfler (miscellaneous crew), Sam Davis (producer), Kerstin Wiedé (producer), Marie Gruber (actress), Eva Haßmann (actress), Gerit Kling (actress), Oliver Dommenget (director), Ingo Recker (editor), Kai Ivo Baulitz (actor), Gurli Thermann (costume designer), Rike Schmid (actress), Heide Simon (actress), Raphaël Vogt (actor), Sabine Glöckner (producer),
Genres: Drama,Lessing, Doris Filmography
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2014, role: writer
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2013, role: writer
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2009, role: writer
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2008, role: actress , character name: Herself
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2005, role: actress , character name: Herself
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2001, role: writer
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1991, role: writer
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1984, role: writer
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1981, role: writer
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1981, role: writer
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1969, role: writer
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1961, role: writer
Famous quotes by Doris Lessing:
"Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others. It is a heritage of communism, but they don't seem to see this."
"And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous. No one notices you. You achieve a wonderful freedom."
"Pearls mean tears."
"Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel."
"The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion."
"There is only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best"
"In the university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools"
"Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself"
"With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how."
"That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way."
"You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires."
"When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia."
"God knows why nobody ever learns from the preceding generation - but they don't."
"A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer."
"I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one. I'm delighted to win them all, the whole lot."
"It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months."
"I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I."
"You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant."
"There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children."
"September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible."
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Doris Lessing - The Reluctant Heroine
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British author Doris Lessing reacts to Nobel win
Oct. 11 - British novelist Doris Lessing reacted with the words 'Oh Christ!' when told by a Reuters correspondent that she'd won the 2007 Nobel Prize for literature. Lessing gave her reaction as she returned to her home in London soon after the award was announced. According to her agent she missed the actual announcement as she had been out shopping. -
Doris Lessing talking about writing
An interview with author Doris Lessing and her translator, Krista Kaer. This clip is from a DVD published by nemcom.tv available from Amazon. -
Doris Lessing on Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949 to 1962 (1997)
Doris May Lessing CH (née Tayler; 22 October 1919 -- 17 November 2013) was a British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer. Her novels include The Grass is Singing (1950), the sequence of five novels collectively called Children of Violence (1952--69), 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 Literature. In awarding the prize, the Swedish Academy described her as "that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny". Lessing was the eleventh woman and the oldest person ever to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. In 2001, Lessing was awa... -
Doris Lessing's Sentimental Education: Social History & Intellectual Life of the 1950s (1997)
Lessing moved to London in 1949 with her youngest son, Peter, to pursue her writing career and communist beliefs, but left the two elder children with their father in South Africa. She later said that at the time she saw no choice: "For a long time I felt I had done a very brave thing. There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children. I felt I wasn't the best person to bring them up. I would have ended up an alcoholic or a frustrated intellectual like my mother." As well as campaigning against nuclear arms, she was an active opponent of apartheid which led in 1956 to being banned from South Africa and Rhodesia for many years. In the same year, following the Soviet invasion of Hungary, she left the British Communist Party. Less... -
Doris Lessing about the Sufi Way con Subtítulos en Español.
Doris Lessing reading from her 1971 article, "An Ancient Way to New Freedom". Doris Lessing leyendo de su artículo "Un antiguo camino hacia una nueva libertad". -
A Tribute to Doris Lessing
Bill also reflects on his conversation a decade ago with Nobel-prize winning novelist Doris Lessing who passed away earlier this week in London at the age of 94. When Bill asks Lessing, whose literary career spanned six decades, if she ever stops writing this is how she answered: "No, I'm compulsive and I deeply think that it has to be something very neurotic. And I'm not joking, it has to be. Because if I've finished a book and this wonderful release, which I'm now feeling; it's off, it's in a parcel, it's gone to a publisher. Bliss and happiness. I don't have to do anything, nothing — I can just sit around. But, suddenly it starts, you see. This terrible feeling that I am just wasting my life." -
Malou intervjuade Doris Lessing i London 2008
2008 träffade Malou von Sivers Nobelpristagaren Doris Lessing i hennes hem i norra London och gjorde en intervju med den kärva författaren, som berättade att många missförstått vissa av hennes böcker. -
Interview Marathon 2006: Doris Lessing
Leading artists, writers, musicians and directors took part in the Serpentine's first 24-hour Interview Marathon in the park. Developed and hosted by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Rem Koolhaas. The event was recorded on in-built CCTV cameras and originally displayed on plasma screens built into the walls of the 2006 Pavilion. Please be aware that the CCTV footage has a grainy quality, which was part of the original concept devised by Rem Koolhaas and Hans Ulrich Obrist. -
Doris Lessing on her writing career
Doris Lessing shares anecdotes from her life as a writer. She was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. More about Doris Lessing at http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2007/lessing-facts.html
Doris Lessing - The Reluctant Heroine
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- Duration: 60:38
- Updated: 14 Dec 2013
- views: 12636
- published: 14 Dec 2013
- views: 12636
British author Doris Lessing reacts to Nobel win
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- Duration: 2:24
- Updated: 12 Oct 2007
- views: 307777
Oct. 11 - British novelist Doris Lessing reacted with the words 'Oh Christ!' when told by a Reuters correspondent that she'd won the 2007 Nobel Prize for litera...
Oct. 11 - British novelist Doris Lessing reacted with the words 'Oh Christ!' when told by a Reuters correspondent that she'd won the 2007 Nobel Prize for literature. Lessing gave her reaction as she returned to her home in London soon after the award was announced. According to her agent she missed the actual announcement as she had been out shopping.
wn.com/British Author Doris Lessing Reacts To Nobel Win
Oct. 11 - British novelist Doris Lessing reacted with the words 'Oh Christ!' when told by a Reuters correspondent that she'd won the 2007 Nobel Prize for literature. Lessing gave her reaction as she returned to her home in London soon after the award was announced. According to her agent she missed the actual announcement as she had been out shopping.
- published: 12 Oct 2007
- views: 307777
Doris Lessing talking about writing
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- Duration: 1:39
- Updated: 13 Feb 2008
- views: 40212
An interview with author Doris Lessing and her translator, Krista Kaer. This clip is from a DVD published by nemcom.tv available from Amazon.
An interview with author Doris Lessing and her translator, Krista Kaer. This clip is from a DVD published by nemcom.tv available from Amazon.
wn.com/Doris Lessing Talking About Writing
An interview with author Doris Lessing and her translator, Krista Kaer. This clip is from a DVD published by nemcom.tv available from Amazon.
- published: 13 Feb 2008
- views: 40212
Doris Lessing on Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949 to 1962 (1997)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 52:53
- Updated: 04 Jan 2014
- views: 4237
Doris May Lessing CH (née Tayler; 22 October 1919 -- 17 November 2013) was a British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer. ...
Doris May Lessing CH (née Tayler; 22 October 1919 -- 17 November 2013) was a British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer. Her novels include The Grass is Singing (1950), the sequence of five novels collectively called Children of Violence (1952--69), 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 Literature. In awarding the prize, the Swedish Academy described her as "that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny". Lessing was the eleventh woman and the oldest person ever to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
In 2001, Lessing was awarded the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime's achievement in British literature. In 2008, The Times ranked her fifth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
Lessing's fiction is commonly divided into three distinct phases: the Communist theme (1944--56), when she was writing radically on social issues (to which she returned in The Good Terrorist [1985]); the psychological theme (1956--1969); and after that the Sufi theme, which was explored in the Canopus in Argos sequence of science fiction (or as she preferred to put it "space fiction") novels and novellas. Doris Lessing's first novel The Grass Is Singing, the first four volumes of The Children of Violence sequence, as well as the collection of short stories African Stories are set in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).
Lessing's Canopus sequence was not popular with many mainstream literary critics. For example, in the New York Times in 1982 John Leonard wrote in reference to The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 that "[o]ne of the many sins for which the 20th century will be held accountable is that it has discouraged Mrs. Lessing... She now propagandises on behalf of our insignificance in the cosmic razzmatazz,"[40] to which Lessing replied: "What they didn't realise was that in science fiction is some of the best social fiction of our time. I also admire the classic sort of science fiction, like Blood Music, by Greg Bear. He's a great writer."[41] Unlike some authors primarily known for their mainstream work, she never hesitated to admit that she wrote science fiction and attended the 1987 World Science Fiction Convention as its Writer Guest of Honor. Here she made a speech in which she described her dystopian novel Memoirs of a Survivor as "an attempt at an autobiography."[42]
The Canopus in Argos novels present an advanced interstellar society's efforts to accelerate the evolution of other worlds, including Earth. Using Sufi concepts, to which Lessing had been introduced in the mid-1960s by her "good friend and teacher" Idries Shah,[39] the series of novels also utilises an approach similar to that employed by the early 20th century mystic G. I. Gurdjieff in his work All and Everything. Earlier works of "inner space" fiction like Briefing for a Descent into Hell (1971) and Memoirs of a Survivor (1974) also connect to this theme. Lessing's interest had turned to Sufism after coming to the realisation that Marxism ignored spiritual matters, leaving her disillusioned.[43]
Lessing's novel The Golden Notebook is considered a feminist classic by some scholars,[44] but notably not by the author herself, who later wrote that its theme of mental breakdowns as a means of healing and freeing one's self from illusions had been overlooked by critics. She also regretted that critics failed to appreciate the exceptional structure of the novel. She explained in Walking in the Shade that she modelled Molly partly on her good friend Joan Rodker, the daughter of the modernist poet and publisher John Rodker.[45]
Lessing did not like being pigeonholed as a feminist author. When asked why, she explained:
What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness. What they would really like me to say is, 'Ha, sisters, I stand with you side by side in your struggle toward the golden dawn where all those beastly men are no more.' Do they really want people to make oversimplified statements about men and women? In fact, they do. I've come with great regret to this conclusion.
—Doris Lessing, The New York Times, 25 July 1982
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Lessing
Image By Elke Wetzig (elya) (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html), CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) or CC-BY-SA-2.5-2.0-1.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5-2.0-1.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
wn.com/Doris Lessing On Walking In The Shade Volume Two Of My Autobiography, 1949 To 1962 (1997)
Doris May Lessing CH (née Tayler; 22 October 1919 -- 17 November 2013) was a British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer. Her novels include The Grass is Singing (1950), the sequence of five novels collectively called Children of Violence (1952--69), 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 Literature. In awarding the prize, the Swedish Academy described her as "that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny". Lessing was the eleventh woman and the oldest person ever to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
In 2001, Lessing was awarded the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime's achievement in British literature. In 2008, The Times ranked her fifth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
Lessing's fiction is commonly divided into three distinct phases: the Communist theme (1944--56), when she was writing radically on social issues (to which she returned in The Good Terrorist [1985]); the psychological theme (1956--1969); and after that the Sufi theme, which was explored in the Canopus in Argos sequence of science fiction (or as she preferred to put it "space fiction") novels and novellas. Doris Lessing's first novel The Grass Is Singing, the first four volumes of The Children of Violence sequence, as well as the collection of short stories African Stories are set in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).
Lessing's Canopus sequence was not popular with many mainstream literary critics. For example, in the New York Times in 1982 John Leonard wrote in reference to The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 that "[o]ne of the many sins for which the 20th century will be held accountable is that it has discouraged Mrs. Lessing... She now propagandises on behalf of our insignificance in the cosmic razzmatazz,"[40] to which Lessing replied: "What they didn't realise was that in science fiction is some of the best social fiction of our time. I also admire the classic sort of science fiction, like Blood Music, by Greg Bear. He's a great writer."[41] Unlike some authors primarily known for their mainstream work, she never hesitated to admit that she wrote science fiction and attended the 1987 World Science Fiction Convention as its Writer Guest of Honor. Here she made a speech in which she described her dystopian novel Memoirs of a Survivor as "an attempt at an autobiography."[42]
The Canopus in Argos novels present an advanced interstellar society's efforts to accelerate the evolution of other worlds, including Earth. Using Sufi concepts, to which Lessing had been introduced in the mid-1960s by her "good friend and teacher" Idries Shah,[39] the series of novels also utilises an approach similar to that employed by the early 20th century mystic G. I. Gurdjieff in his work All and Everything. Earlier works of "inner space" fiction like Briefing for a Descent into Hell (1971) and Memoirs of a Survivor (1974) also connect to this theme. Lessing's interest had turned to Sufism after coming to the realisation that Marxism ignored spiritual matters, leaving her disillusioned.[43]
Lessing's novel The Golden Notebook is considered a feminist classic by some scholars,[44] but notably not by the author herself, who later wrote that its theme of mental breakdowns as a means of healing and freeing one's self from illusions had been overlooked by critics. She also regretted that critics failed to appreciate the exceptional structure of the novel. She explained in Walking in the Shade that she modelled Molly partly on her good friend Joan Rodker, the daughter of the modernist poet and publisher John Rodker.[45]
Lessing did not like being pigeonholed as a feminist author. When asked why, she explained:
What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness. What they would really like me to say is, 'Ha, sisters, I stand with you side by side in your struggle toward the golden dawn where all those beastly men are no more.' Do they really want people to make oversimplified statements about men and women? In fact, they do. I've come with great regret to this conclusion.
—Doris Lessing, The New York Times, 25 July 1982
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Lessing
Image By Elke Wetzig (elya) (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html), CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) or CC-BY-SA-2.5-2.0-1.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5-2.0-1.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
- published: 04 Jan 2014
- views: 4237
Doris Lessing's Sentimental Education: Social History & Intellectual Life of the 1950s (1997)
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- Duration: 52:55
- Updated: 14 Oct 2014
- views: 2255
Lessing moved to London in 1949 with her youngest son, Peter, to pursue her writing career and communist beliefs, but left the two elder children with their fat...
Lessing moved to London in 1949 with her youngest son, Peter, to pursue her writing career and communist beliefs, but left the two elder children with their father in South Africa. She later said that at the time she saw no choice: "For a long time I felt I had done a very brave thing. There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children. I felt I wasn't the best person to bring them up. I would have ended up an alcoholic or a frustrated intellectual like my mother." As well as campaigning against nuclear arms, she was an active opponent of apartheid which led in 1956 to being banned from South Africa and Rhodesia for many years. In the same year, following the Soviet invasion of Hungary, she left the British Communist Party.
Lessing first sold stories to magazines at the age of 15, in South Africa.[18] Her first novel, The Grass Is Singing, was published in 1950.[11] Her breakthrough work, The Golden Notebook, was written in 1962.[10] By the time of her death, more than 50 of her novels had been published.[19]
In 1982, Lessing tried to publish two novels under a pseudonym, Jane Somers, to show the difficulty new authors faced in trying to have their works in print. The novels were declined by Lessing's UK publisher, but were later accepted by another English publisher, Michael Joseph, and in the US by Alfred A. Knopf. The Diary of a Good Neighbour[20] was published in Britain and the US in 1983, and If the Old Could in both countries in 1984,[21] both as written by Jane Somers. In 1984, both novels were re-published in both countries (Viking Books publishing in the US), this time under one cover, with the title The Diaries of Jane Somers: The Diary of a Good Neighbour and If the Old Could, listing Doris Lessing as author.[22]
Lessing declined a damehood in 1992 for it being in the name of a non-existent Empire; also declined appointment as OBE in 1977.[23] Later she accepted appointment as a Companion of Honour at the end of 1999 for "conspicuous national service".[24] She was also made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature.[25]
In 2007, Lessing was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.[26][27] She received the prize at the age of 88 years 52 days, making her the oldest winner of the literature prize at the time of the award and the third-oldest Nobel laureate in any category (after Leonid Hurwicz and Raymond Davis Jr.).[28][29] She also was only the 11th woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature by the Swedish Academy in its 106-year history.[30] Lessing was out shopping for groceries when the announcement came, arriving home to tell reporters who had gathered there, "Oh Christ!"[31] She told reporters outside her home, "I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one, so I'm delighted to win them all. It's a royal flush."[32] She titled her Nobel Lecture On Not Winning the Nobel Prize and used it to draw attention to global inequality of opportunity, and to explore changing attitudes to storytelling and literature. The lecture was later published in a limited edition to raise money for children made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS. In a 2008 interview for the BBC's Front Row, she stated that increased media interest after the award had left her without time or energy for writing.[33] Her final book, Alfred and Emily, appeared in 2008.
A 2010 BBC radio documentary titled Useful Idiots listed among "useful idiots" of Joseph Stalin several prominent British writers, including Doris Lessing.
Lessing's fiction is commonly divided into three distinct phases: the Communist theme (1944–56), when she was writing radically on social issues (to which she returned in The Good Terrorist [1985]); the psychological theme (1956–1969); and after that the Sufi theme, which was explored in the Canopus in Argos sequence of science fiction (or as she preferred to put it "space fiction") novels and novellas. Doris Lessing's first novel The Grass Is Singing, the first four volumes of The Children of Violence sequence, as well as the collection of short stories African Stories are set in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Lessing
wn.com/Doris Lessing's Sentimental Education Social History Intellectual Life Of The 1950S (1997)
Lessing moved to London in 1949 with her youngest son, Peter, to pursue her writing career and communist beliefs, but left the two elder children with their father in South Africa. She later said that at the time she saw no choice: "For a long time I felt I had done a very brave thing. There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children. I felt I wasn't the best person to bring them up. I would have ended up an alcoholic or a frustrated intellectual like my mother." As well as campaigning against nuclear arms, she was an active opponent of apartheid which led in 1956 to being banned from South Africa and Rhodesia for many years. In the same year, following the Soviet invasion of Hungary, she left the British Communist Party.
Lessing first sold stories to magazines at the age of 15, in South Africa.[18] Her first novel, The Grass Is Singing, was published in 1950.[11] Her breakthrough work, The Golden Notebook, was written in 1962.[10] By the time of her death, more than 50 of her novels had been published.[19]
In 1982, Lessing tried to publish two novels under a pseudonym, Jane Somers, to show the difficulty new authors faced in trying to have their works in print. The novels were declined by Lessing's UK publisher, but were later accepted by another English publisher, Michael Joseph, and in the US by Alfred A. Knopf. The Diary of a Good Neighbour[20] was published in Britain and the US in 1983, and If the Old Could in both countries in 1984,[21] both as written by Jane Somers. In 1984, both novels were re-published in both countries (Viking Books publishing in the US), this time under one cover, with the title The Diaries of Jane Somers: The Diary of a Good Neighbour and If the Old Could, listing Doris Lessing as author.[22]
Lessing declined a damehood in 1992 for it being in the name of a non-existent Empire; also declined appointment as OBE in 1977.[23] Later she accepted appointment as a Companion of Honour at the end of 1999 for "conspicuous national service".[24] She was also made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature.[25]
In 2007, Lessing was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.[26][27] She received the prize at the age of 88 years 52 days, making her the oldest winner of the literature prize at the time of the award and the third-oldest Nobel laureate in any category (after Leonid Hurwicz and Raymond Davis Jr.).[28][29] She also was only the 11th woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature by the Swedish Academy in its 106-year history.[30] Lessing was out shopping for groceries when the announcement came, arriving home to tell reporters who had gathered there, "Oh Christ!"[31] She told reporters outside her home, "I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one, so I'm delighted to win them all. It's a royal flush."[32] She titled her Nobel Lecture On Not Winning the Nobel Prize and used it to draw attention to global inequality of opportunity, and to explore changing attitudes to storytelling and literature. The lecture was later published in a limited edition to raise money for children made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS. In a 2008 interview for the BBC's Front Row, she stated that increased media interest after the award had left her without time or energy for writing.[33] Her final book, Alfred and Emily, appeared in 2008.
A 2010 BBC radio documentary titled Useful Idiots listed among "useful idiots" of Joseph Stalin several prominent British writers, including Doris Lessing.
Lessing's fiction is commonly divided into three distinct phases: the Communist theme (1944–56), when she was writing radically on social issues (to which she returned in The Good Terrorist [1985]); the psychological theme (1956–1969); and after that the Sufi theme, which was explored in the Canopus in Argos sequence of science fiction (or as she preferred to put it "space fiction") novels and novellas. Doris Lessing's first novel The Grass Is Singing, the first four volumes of The Children of Violence sequence, as well as the collection of short stories African Stories are set in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Lessing
- published: 14 Oct 2014
- views: 2255
Doris Lessing about the Sufi Way con Subtítulos en Español.
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- Duration: 23:35
- Updated: 19 Dec 2012
- views: 22881
Doris Lessing reading from her 1971 article, "An Ancient Way to New Freedom".
Doris Lessing leyendo de su artículo "Un antiguo camino hacia una nueva libertad"....
Doris Lessing reading from her 1971 article, "An Ancient Way to New Freedom".
Doris Lessing leyendo de su artículo "Un antiguo camino hacia una nueva libertad".
wn.com/Doris Lessing About The Sufi Way Con Subtítulos En Español.
Doris Lessing reading from her 1971 article, "An Ancient Way to New Freedom".
Doris Lessing leyendo de su artículo "Un antiguo camino hacia una nueva libertad".
- published: 19 Dec 2012
- views: 22881
A Tribute to Doris Lessing
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- Duration: 5:31
- Updated: 22 Nov 2013
- views: 4959
Bill also reflects on his conversation a decade ago with Nobel-prize winning novelist Doris Lessing who passed away earlier this week in London at the age of 94...
Bill also reflects on his conversation a decade ago with Nobel-prize winning novelist Doris Lessing who passed away earlier this week in London at the age of 94.
When Bill asks Lessing, whose literary career spanned six decades, if she ever stops writing this is how she answered: "No, I'm compulsive and I deeply think that it has to be something very neurotic. And I'm not joking, it has to be. Because if I've finished a book and this wonderful release, which I'm now feeling; it's off, it's in a parcel, it's gone to a publisher. Bliss and happiness. I don't have to do anything, nothing — I can just sit around. But, suddenly it starts, you see. This terrible feeling that I am just wasting my life."
wn.com/A Tribute To Doris Lessing
Bill also reflects on his conversation a decade ago with Nobel-prize winning novelist Doris Lessing who passed away earlier this week in London at the age of 94.
When Bill asks Lessing, whose literary career spanned six decades, if she ever stops writing this is how she answered: "No, I'm compulsive and I deeply think that it has to be something very neurotic. And I'm not joking, it has to be. Because if I've finished a book and this wonderful release, which I'm now feeling; it's off, it's in a parcel, it's gone to a publisher. Bliss and happiness. I don't have to do anything, nothing — I can just sit around. But, suddenly it starts, you see. This terrible feeling that I am just wasting my life."
- published: 22 Nov 2013
- views: 4959
Malou intervjuade Doris Lessing i London 2008
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- Duration: 9:18
- Updated: 18 Nov 2013
- views: 538
2008 träffade Malou von Sivers Nobelpristagaren Doris Lessing i hennes hem i norra London och gjorde en intervju med den kärva författaren, som berättade att må...
2008 träffade Malou von Sivers Nobelpristagaren Doris Lessing i hennes hem i norra London och gjorde en intervju med den kärva författaren, som berättade att många missförstått vissa av hennes böcker.
wn.com/Malou Intervjuade Doris Lessing I London 2008
2008 träffade Malou von Sivers Nobelpristagaren Doris Lessing i hennes hem i norra London och gjorde en intervju med den kärva författaren, som berättade att många missförstått vissa av hennes böcker.
- published: 18 Nov 2013
- views: 538
Interview Marathon 2006: Doris Lessing
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- Duration: 19:45
- Updated: 16 Dec 2015
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Leading artists, writers, musicians and directors took part in the Serpentine's first 24-hour Interview Marathon in the park. Developed and hosted by Hans Ulric...
Leading artists, writers, musicians and directors took part in the Serpentine's first 24-hour Interview Marathon in the park. Developed and hosted by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Rem Koolhaas. The event was recorded on in-built CCTV cameras and originally displayed on plasma screens built into the walls of the 2006 Pavilion. Please be aware that the CCTV footage has a grainy quality, which was part of the original concept devised by Rem Koolhaas and Hans Ulrich Obrist.
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Leading artists, writers, musicians and directors took part in the Serpentine's first 24-hour Interview Marathon in the park. Developed and hosted by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Rem Koolhaas. The event was recorded on in-built CCTV cameras and originally displayed on plasma screens built into the walls of the 2006 Pavilion. Please be aware that the CCTV footage has a grainy quality, which was part of the original concept devised by Rem Koolhaas and Hans Ulrich Obrist.
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Doris Lessing on her writing career
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Doris Lessing shares anecdotes from her life as a writer. She was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. More about Doris Lessing at http://www.nobelprize....
Doris Lessing shares anecdotes from her life as a writer. She was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. More about Doris Lessing at http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2007/lessing-facts.html
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Doris Lessing shares anecdotes from her life as a writer. She was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. More about Doris Lessing at http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2007/lessing-facts.html
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Interview with the 2007 Nobel Laureate in Literature Doris Lessing at her home in London, 14 April 2007. The interviewer is Professor John Mullan. Lessing comments on her early days as a writer and working on first book, 'The Grass is Singing'. For the complete interview, visit: http://nobelprize.org/mediaplayer/index.php?id=978 -
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In 2000, Ray Suarez interviewed Doris Lessing about "Ben in the World," a science fiction novel that continued the story of a young man striking out on his own path, even though he is incapable of coping with the modern world. As the sequel to her 1988 novel, "The Fifth Child," Lessing told Suarez about what made her take up Ben's story again, more than a decade after the first book. Lessing passed away on Nov. 17 in London at the age of 94. -
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The outspoken author Doris Lessing is distinctly underwhelmed as a reporter tells her she has won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007. The Nobel Prize-winning novelist Doris Lessing, one of the most important English-language writers of the late 20th century, has died aged 94, her publisher said on Sunday. Lessing tackled race, ideology, gender politics and the workings of the psyche in a prolific and often iconoclastic career, and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007, only the 11th woman to do so. Born in what was then Persia, now Iran, on Oct 22, 1919, Lessing was raised in Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, and moved to Britain at the age of 30. Source: APTN Get the latest headlines http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ Subscribe to The Telegraph http://www.youtube.com/subscripti...
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Lessing passed away on Nov. 17 in London at the age of 94.
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In 2000, Ray Suarez interviewed Doris Lessing about "Ben in the World," a science fiction novel that continued the story of a young man striking out on his own path, even though he is incapable of coping with the modern world. As the sequel to her 1988 novel, "The Fifth Child," Lessing told Suarez about what made her take up Ben's story again, more than a decade after the first book.
Lessing passed away on Nov. 17 in London at the age of 94.
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Nobel Prize in Literature 2007, Doris Lessing
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Interview with the 2007 Nobel Laureate in Literature Doris Lessing at her home in London, 14 April 2007. The interviewer is Professor John Mullan. Lessing comm...
Interview with the 2007 Nobel Laureate in Literature Doris Lessing at her home in London, 14 April 2007. The interviewer is Professor John Mullan. Lessing comments on her early days as a writer and working on first book, 'The Grass is Singing'. For the complete interview, visit: http://nobelprize.org/mediaplayer/index.php?id=978
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Interview with the 2007 Nobel Laureate in Literature Doris Lessing at her home in London, 14 April 2007. The interviewer is Professor John Mullan. Lessing comments on her early days as a writer and working on first book, 'The Grass is Singing'. For the complete interview, visit: http://nobelprize.org/mediaplayer/index.php?id=978
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Doris Lessing's unfinished business with 'Ben in the World'
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In 2000, Ray Suarez interviewed Doris Lessing about "Ben in the World," a science fiction novel that continued the story of a young man striking out on his own ...
In 2000, Ray Suarez interviewed Doris Lessing about "Ben in the World," a science fiction novel that continued the story of a young man striking out on his own path, even though he is incapable of coping with the modern world. As the sequel to her 1988 novel, "The Fifth Child," Lessing told Suarez about what made her take up Ben's story again, more than a decade after the first book.
Lessing passed away on Nov. 17 in London at the age of 94.
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In 2000, Ray Suarez interviewed Doris Lessing about "Ben in the World," a science fiction novel that continued the story of a young man striking out on his own path, even though he is incapable of coping with the modern world. As the sequel to her 1988 novel, "The Fifth Child," Lessing told Suarez about what made her take up Ben's story again, more than a decade after the first book.
Lessing passed away on Nov. 17 in London at the age of 94.
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Novelist Doris Lessing reacts to winning the Nobel Prize
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The outspoken author Doris Lessing is distinctly underwhelmed as a reporter tells her she has won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007.
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The outspoken author Doris Lessing is distinctly underwhelmed as a reporter tells her she has won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007.
The Nobel Prize-winning novelist Doris Lessing, one of the most important English-language writers of the late 20th century, has died aged 94, her publisher said on Sunday.
Lessing tackled race, ideology, gender politics and the workings of the psyche in a prolific and often iconoclastic career, and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007, only the 11th woman to do so.
Born in what was then Persia, now Iran, on Oct 22, 1919, Lessing was raised in Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, and moved to Britain at the age of 30.
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The outspoken author Doris Lessing is distinctly underwhelmed as a reporter tells her she has won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007.
The Nobel Prize-winning novelist Doris Lessing, one of the most important English-language writers of the late 20th century, has died aged 94, her publisher said on Sunday.
Lessing tackled race, ideology, gender politics and the workings of the psyche in a prolific and often iconoclastic career, and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007, only the 11th woman to do so.
Born in what was then Persia, now Iran, on Oct 22, 1919, Lessing was raised in Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, and moved to Britain at the age of 30.
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Doris Lessing - The Reluctant Heroine
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British author Doris Lessing reacts to Nobel win
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Doris Lessing talking about writing
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Doris Lessing on Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949 to 1962 (1997)
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Doris Lessing's Sentimental Education: Social History & Intellectual Life of the 1950s (1997)
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Doris Lessing about the Sufi Way con Subtítulos en Español.
Doris Lessing reading from her 1971 article, "An Ancient Way to New Freedom".
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A Tribute to Doris Lessing
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Malou intervjuade Doris Lessing i London 2008
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