When Nigel Farndale interviewed Doris Lessing in April 2008, at the age of 88, he found her still raging - at communists, war, Mrs Thatcher, the 'bloody Swedes' who awarded her the Nobel Prize... It ...

British writer Doris Lessing has won the Nobel Literature Prize for five decades of epic novels that have covered feminism, politics and her youth in Africa. Lessing, who will be 88 next week, is only ...

Doris Lessing in 1957, five years before the publication of The Golden Notebook Credit: Photo: Warner Already, in the hours since the death of Doris Lessing was announced, many people will have ...

Doris Lessing, the British writer, has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, becoming the oldest person to have won it. Lessing is only the 11th woman to win literature's most prestigious prize ...

En el centenario de su nacimiento, Doris Lessing (1919-2013) sigue siendo una escritora necesaria para analizar y comprender la complejidad de nuestro presente. Su legado literario refleja los ...

“Everything’s cracking up”, says Anna, the protagonist of Lessing’s masterpiece, a novel that takes its place in this list for its odd, visionary engagement with the issues and anxieties of its time ...

Nick Higham looks back at the life of novelist Doris Lessing A look at the life of Doris Lessing, the controversial novelist whose themes ranged from social justice to feminism and science fiction, ...

Author Doris Lessing, who won a Nobel Prize for her life of literature, died Sunday at age 94, her publisher, HarperCollins, said. The British author was best known for “The Golden Notebook,” which is ...

Mystery surrounds the diaries of Doris Lessing after the late Nobel Prize winner’s will stipulated they remain closed to the world as long as any of her children are alive. The novelist had a tangled ...

The woman has trouble stepping out of the taxi. She is old, and the taxi sits higher off the ground than she might like. As she stoops to protect her head, the long red scarf that hangs from her neck ...

Doris Lessing, who wrote the landmark 1962 novel The Golden Notebook and won the Nobel Prize, has died aged 94. The British author died peacefully at her London home in the early hours today, a ...