Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing
	Lessing at the Lit Cologne leeterary festival in 2006
Born	Doris May Tayler; 22 October 1919; Kermanshah, Iran
Dee'd	17 November 2013 (aged 94); Lunnon, Ingland
Pen name	Jane Somers
Thrift	Writer
Naitionality	Breetish
Ceetizenship	Unitit Kinrick
Period	1950–2013
Genre	Novel, short story, biography, drama, libretto, poetry
Leeterar muivement	Modrenism, postmodrenism, Sufism, socialism, feminism, scepticism science feection
Notable warks	The Grass is Singing; Children of Violence series; The Golden Notebook; Briefing for a Descent into Hell; The Good Terrorist;
Notable awairds	Somerset Maugham Awaird ; 1954 ; ; Austrick State Prize for European Leeteratur ; 1981 ; ; WH Smith Literary Awaird ; 1986 ; ; Premio Grinzane Cavour ; 1989 ; ; James Tait Black Memorial Prize ; 1995 ; ; David Cohen Prize ; 2001 ; ; Premio Príncipe de Asturias ; 2001 ; ; Nobel Prize in Leeteratur ; 2007 ; ;
Spoose	Frank Charles Wisdom; (m. 1939; div. 1943); Gottfried Anton Nicolai Lessing; (m. 1945; div. 1949);
Bairns	John (b. 1939), Jean (b. 1943), Peter (b. 1947)
Wabsteid
	www.dorislessing.org

Doris May Lessing CH (née Tayler; 22 October 1919 – 17 November 2013) wis a Breetish novelist, poet, playwricht, librettist, biografer an short story writer. Her novelles include The Grass is Singing (1950), the sequence o five novelles collectively cried Children of Violence (1952–69), The Golden Notebook (1962), The Good Terrorist (1985), an five novelles collectively kent as Canopus in Argos: Archives (1979–1983).