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	Doris Lessing - Wikipedia, den fria encyklopedin
		Doris Lessing har fått ett flertal erkännanden för sitt författarskap, som inbegriper såväl skönlitteratur som faktaböcker, och i samtliga fall innehåller ett stort mått av självbiografiskt innehåll.
		Lessings prosa brukar delas in i tre skilda faser: Kommunisttemat 1944-1956, när hon skrev radikalt om sociala frågor, Det psykologiska temat 1956-1969 och därefter det sufiska temat, som kom att etablera Lessing som en mystikförfattare av rang.
		Lessing har också skrivit ett antal böcker om katter, som är hennes favoritdjur.
	sv.wikipedia.org /wiki/Doris_Lessing (1579 words)

	Joyce Carol Oates - A Visit with Doris Lessing
		Lessing whether she felt it was extremely difficult to convey the sense of a "mystical" experience in the framework of fiction, of any kind of work intended to communicate naturalistically to a large audience.
		Lessing was understandably reticent about her own writing—and perhaps I embarrassed her by my own enthusiasm, though I did not tell her that she was quite mistaken in her feeling that her writing might not have the effect she desired: The Golden Notebook alone has radically changed the consciousness of many young women.
		Lessing cannot return to the country of her childhood and girlhood, Southern Rhodesia, because she is a "prohibited immigrant"; homesick for the veldt, she had her daughter send her several color photographs of African flowers, which are on display in her flat).
	jco.usfca.edu /lessing.html (2399 words)

	Doris Lessing
		Doris Lessing was born of British parents, in Persia in 1919, and was taken to Southern Rhodesia when she was five.
		Lessing predetermines her to lose her way, and Martha does so conscientiously, to the bitter end, to the furthest consequences, which implies that, short of a miracle, she may cease to exist.
		Doris Lessing read voraciously as a child, but did not go much to school, or at least not till she was thirty, when this volume stops.
	lidiavianu.scriptmania.com /doris_lessing.htm (8968 words)

	NOW with Bill Moyers. Transcript. Doris Lessing -- A Bill Moyers Interview . 1.24.03 \| PBS
		DORIS LESSING: I look at him, and I think that's a young man. I-- when I was a child, there was a soldier.
		DORIS LESSING: I was going to say, yes, you were not living that life at all.
		DORIS LESSING: Well, you see you must have known families where-- a-- child that doesn't fit in is born.
	www.pbs.org /now/transcript/transcript_lessing.html (2943 words)

	Biography
		Lessing was later sent to an all-girls high school in the capital of Salisbury, from which she soon dropped out.
		Lessing's life has been a challenge to her belief that people cannot resist the currents of their time, as she fought against the biological and cultural imperatives that fated her to sink without a murmur into marriage and motherhood.
		Lessing's fiction is deeply autobiographical, much of it emerging out of her experiences in Africa.
	www.dorislessing.org /biography.html (1817 words)

	Literature Nobel for Doris Lessing - CNN.com
		Lessing, less than two weeks short of her 88th birthday, is the oldest choice ever for a prize that usually goes to authors in their 50s and 60s.
		Lessing at the beginning of her writing career had a few admirable qualities, I find her work for the past 15 years quite unreadable...
		Lessing was also cited for her "vision of global catastrophe forcing mankind to return to a more primitive life, noting such recent works as "Mara and Dann" and its sequel, "The Story of General Dann and Mara's Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog," published in 2005.
	www.cnn.com /2007/WORLD/europe/10/11/nobel.lessing.ap/index.html (1008 words)

	Doris Lessing News - The New York Times
		In her long and complex career, Doris Lessing, the winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in literature, has traversed the savannas of Africa, the crooked streets of London and the chilly reaches of outer space.
		At 82, Doris Lessing is still just as interested in debating politics as she was 40 years ago, when she published "The Golden Notebook" and instantly established herself as one of the most important literary voices of her generation.
		Doris Lessing, the novelist whose deeply autobiographical writing has swept across continents and reflects her engagement with the social and political issues of her time, won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	topics.nytimes.com /top/reference/timestopics/people/l/doris_lessing/index.html (1277 words)

	Doris Lessing Wins Nobel Prize in Literature - New York Times
		Doris Lessing, the Persian-born, Rhodesian-raised and London-residing novelist whose deeply autobiographical writing has swept across continents and reflects her engagement with the social and political issues of her time, won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday.
		Lessing said that on second thought, she was not as surprised “because this has been going on for something like 40 years,” referring to the number of times she has been mentioned as a likely honoree.
		Lessing is passionate about social and political issues, she is unlikely to be as controversial as the previous two winners, Orhan Pamuk of Turkey or Harold Pinter of Britain, whose views on current political situations led commentators to suspect that the Swedish Academy was choosing its winners in part for nonliterary reasons.
	www.nytimes.com /glogin?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/11/world/11cnd-nobel.html&OQ=_rQ3D4Q26hpQ26orefQ3DsloginQ26orefQ3DsloginQ26orefQ3Dslogin&OP=7b3b607Q2FQ7CqytQ7CQ24Q2B_nQ20Q2BQ2BiQ5BQ7CQ5Bkk1Q7C,kQ7C,,Q7CqQ2BQ20Q2AQ24Q7C,,_Q51Q24Q5EQ51Q2BtyQ2AQ5CgiCQ2A (1081 words)

	DORIS LESSING: MARTHA
		Lessings tidiga fiktion fram till 1969 har många likheter med viktorianska kvinnliga och feministiska författare som George Sand och George Eliot.
		Den feminisktiska traditionen vidareutvecklas ständigt i England, och författare som Mortimer, Lessing, Drabble, Byatt och Spark verkar alla röra sig mot nya faser i sina författarskap.
		Lessing drar sig inte heller för att driva med det typiskt engelska; kolonialismens baksida, vurmen för den engelska överklassen och dess fina manér, snobberiet och inkröktheten.
	www.tii.se /people/geska/pages/403_LESSING.html (1019 words)

	MSN Encarta - Doris Lessing
		Doris Lessing, born in 1919, British novelist and short-story writer whose early fiction criticizes colonial attitudes toward race, politics, and women’s role in society.
		Lessing’s central achievement, Children of Violence, describes the career of Martha Quest from rural central African beginnings to her later years in an England on its way to moral and technological disintegration.
		Lessing turned away from realism and entered the realm of fantasy and science fiction with her five-volume space saga Canopus in Argos: Archives (1979-1983).
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761555142/Doris_Lessing.html (571 words)

	Doris Lessing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Doris Lessing, CH, OBE (born October 22, 1919), is a British writer, born Doris May Taylor in Kermanshah, Persia (Iran).
		Lessing's fiction is commonly divided into three distinct phases: The Communist theme 1944-1956 when she was writing radically on social issues, The psychological theme 1956-1969 and after that The Sufi theme which was explored in the Canopus series (see below).
		This novel also allegedly made Lessing a candidate for the Nobel prize, but her later science fiction books (The Canopus series) may have discredited her, so that she was removed from the unofficial list of those under consideration.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Doris_Lessing (627 words)

	Doris Lessing: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Despite this difficult and unhappy childhood, Lessing's writings about life in British Africa are filled with a compassion for both the sterile lives of the British colonists and the plight of the indigenous inhabitants.
		Her second husband was Gottfried Lessing, a German emigrant (Someone who leaves one country to settle in another).
		In 2001 she was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize in Literature for her works in defense of freedom and Third World (Underdeveloped and developing countries of Asia and Africa and Latin America collectively) causes.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/do/doris_lessing.htm (493 words)

	'The Sweetest Dream' by Doris Lessing
		Lessing’s world has never been without crisis, as her life (two volumes of autobiography) and prodigious literary output of more than 30 works of fiction, short stories, plays, poems and reportage attest.
		Lessing sets that turbulent decade in the microsystem of a rambling London house where Frances, a talented actress and writer, her two sons and an never-ending parade of classmates, friends, girlfriends and occasional strangers co-exist gingerly with the owner of the house.
		Lessing’s character sketches of the inmates of Lennox house and their maturation through the decades -- or lack thereof -- are scathingly dead-on.
	www.post-gazette.com /books/reviews/20020210review936.asp (715 words)

	Doris Lessing
		Ultimately though, Lessing has always been a generous writer, and one who is determined to get to the bottom of things, and while the story may veer from the facts, a kind of truth emerges nevertheless, as Lessing effortlessly captures what is quintessential in each of her charming characters.
		Meanwhile Frances, Doris Lessing's contemporary and a generous, resilient character who clearly has all the author's sympathy, finds herself by the 1960s running a communal household where her teenage sons and their friends drift in and out, no one is refused a meal or a bed and shoplifting is tolerated because property is theft.
		Lessing is still just as interested in debating politics at train stations as she was 40 years ago, when she published "The Golden Notebook" and instantly established herself as one of the most important literary voices of her generation.
	members.tripod.com /arlindo_correia/041001.html (15523 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Archive Search
		The novelist Doris Lessing yesterday claimed that men were the new silent victims in the sex war, "continually demeaned and insulted" by women without a whimper of protest.
		Lessing, who became a feminist icon with the books The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook, said a "lazy and insidious" culture had taken hold within feminism that revelled in flailing men.
		Lessing also revealed she is not going to write a third volume of her autobiography because she did not want to offend so "many great and eminent people by reminding them of their silliness.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Archive/Article/0,4273,4238674,00.html (475 words)

	Gringoes
		Doris Lessing who has just turned 86, is considered by some, including this critic, as the best living writer in the English language.
		Lessing "is one of the superb writers of the language.
		Doris Lessing has captured the spirit of her time and the spirit of our time as no other writer has done in recent history.
	www.gringoes.com /articles.asp?ID_Noticia=1054 (1035 words)

	Lessing, Doris on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Among Lessing's other novels are Briefing for a Descent into Hell (1971), The Summer before the Dark (1973), The Good Terrorist (1985), The Fifth Child (1988) and its sequel, Ben, in the World (2000), and The Sweetest Dream (2001), a semiautobiographical tale of the 1960s.
		To dramatize the plight of unknown novelists, Lessing wrote two novels, The Diary of a Good Neighbour (1983) and If the Old Could (1984), under the pseudonym of Jane Somers; they were ignored by critics until Lessing revealed their true authorship.
		Doris Lessing speaks the wisdom of the older woman
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/l/lessingd1.asp (827 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Author Lessing wins Nobel honour
		Lessing said she was "very glad" about the honour - particularly as she was told 40 years ago that the Nobel hierarchy did not like her.
		Lessing is only the 11th woman to win the prize, considered by many to be the world's highest accolade for writers, since it started in 1901.
		Lessing was out shopping when the announcement was made and said she thought a TV show was being filmed on her street when she returned to find TV crews outside her house.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/7039100.stm (657 words)

	Biography
		Lessing was later sent to an all-girls high school in the capital of Salisbury, from which she soon dropped out.
		Lessing's life has been a challenge to her belief that people cannot resist the currents of their time, as she fought against the biological and cultural imperatives that fated her to sink without a murmur into marriage and motherhood.
		In 1956, in response to Lessing's courageous outspokenness, she was declared a prohibited alien in both Southern Rhodesia and South Africa.
	lessing.redmood.com /biography.html (1809 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Doris Lessing - Books: Meet the Writers
		Lessing was born in Persia (now Iran) and grew up in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), where her father made an unsuccessful attempt to farm maize.
		Lessing married at the age of 20, but three years later, feeling stifled by colonial life and increasingly distressed by the racism of her society, she joined the Communist Party, "because they were the only people I had ever met who fought the color bar in their lives."
		Lessing's African stories painted a grim picture of white colonialism and the oppression of fl Africans, and in 1956, Lessing was declared a prohibited alien in South Africa and Southern Rhodesia.
	www.barnesandnoble.com /writers/writerdetails.asp?cid=90468&userid=356VKUIJMD (770 words)

	Doris Lessing
		Central themes in Lessing's works are feminism (see also Simone de Beauvoir, Betty Friedman, Germaine Greer, Marilyn French), the battle of the sexes, individuals in search of wholeness, and the dangers of technological and scientific hubris.
		Doris Lessing was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007.
		Lessing's second marriage also failed and in 1949 she moved to England with her youngest child and the manuscript of her first novel, The Grass is Singing, which appeared in 1950.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /dlessing.htm (1724 words)

	Doris Lessing » Listics
		Lessing’s concerns and her love of books, and it does not avail itself to the sound-bite analysis that journalists with deadlines have tried to apply.
		Doris Lessing has no trouble saying what she means, and expressing herself quite clearly.
		Lessing’s need to disassociate herself from “Ms.” magazine feminism notwithstanding, she was obviously feminist in that egalitarian context that underscores the 19th amendment to the US Constitution, the suffragist’s amendment.
	listics.com /200712083787 (1412 words)

	Doris Lessing \| Salon Books
		Doris Lessing chats with media on the doorstep of her house in London on Oct. 11.
		Yet Lessing herself once dismissed George Eliot, to whom she is so often compared, as "good as far as she goes"; she prefers to claim the more cosmopolitan influence of Tolstoy and Balzac.
		Lessing infuses a simple plot with the intensity of Greek tragedy: She portrays the wife's murder by the African, Moses, as the inevitable outcome of male violence and female passivity fostered by white settler culture.
	www.salon.com /books/feature/2007/10/12/doris_lessing_guide (886 words)

	JOYCE CAROL OATES : ON DORIS LESSING
		Lessing whether she felt it was extremely difficult to convey the sense of a "mystical" experience in the framework of fiction, of any kind of work intended to communicate naturalistically to a large audience.
		Lessing was understandably reticent about her own writing—and perhaps I embarrassed her by my own enthusiasm, though I did not tell her that she was quite mistaken in her feeling that her writing might not have the effect she desired: The Golden Notebook alone has radically changed the consciousness of many young women.
		Lessing cannot return to the country of her childhood and girlhood, Southern Rhodesia, because she is a "prohibited immigrant"; homesick for the veldt, she had her daughter send her several color photographs of African flowers, which are on display in her flat).
	www.usfca.edu /fac-staff/southerr/lessing.html (2423 words)

	Literature Nobel Awarded to Writer Doris Lessing : NPR
		Lessing's name had been mentioned as a possible candidate for the Nobel Prize several times before, so she said she was not entirely surprised by Thursday's announcement.
		Lessing was born in Persia, but her father moved his family to Rhodesia — now Zimbabwe — when she was a young child.
		Jonathan Burnham of Harper Collins, Lessing's American publisher, believes that her ability to integrate fiction with the profound issues of the day may be one of the reasons she was awarded the Nobel.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=15195588&ft=1&f=1032 (801 words)

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