Doris Lessing

Ms. Lessing was an uninhibited and outspoken novelist who produced dozens of novels, short stories, essays and poems, embarking on dizzying and at times stultifying literary experiments.

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Doris Lessing explores the lives of “these sick and half crazy people, my parents,” with unsentimental clarity.

“The suns of the long summers at the beginning of the last century promised only peace and plenty, not to mention prosperity and happiness.”

Doris Lessing once declared that “fiction makes a better job of the truth” than straightforward reminiscence. This observation does not apply to her latest book.

The Nobel Prize winner talks about writing about her mother, why Gordon Brown isn’t as bad as Tony Blair and the trouble with Yum-Yum.

A novelist builds a bridge to the Arab soul, using the tradition of stories with a frame tale.

Doris Lessing, the 2007 Nobel prize winner in literature, told the BBC that receiving the prize was “a bloody disaster.”

Some literary-minded bloggers seemed a little piqued at comments on their hobby made by Doris Lessing in her Nobel lecture this month.

This two-character play, based on a Doris Lessing novel, exaggerates the book’s bluntness without capturing its nuanced perceptions.