Doris Lessing responded to the contradictions of our time by facing them with unmatched courage. Doris Lessing at her home in north London in 2007. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) By signing up, you ...

Patrick French is dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and professor for the public understanding of the humanities at Ahmedabad University in India. He is the authorized biographer of Doris ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Perhaps only sentimentalists believe that truth will make us free. Doris Lessing, a romantic but also a realist, clearly has no doubt ...

The literary world is paying tribute to Nobel Prize-winning novelist Doris Lessing, who has died aged 94. The British author produced more than 60 works including short stories, poetry and operas.

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 ...

Doris Lessing was a Nobel Prize-winning novelist and feminist flag-bearer whose controversial bestsellers stretched the boundaries of realist fiction. Lessing, who has died aged 94, was one of the ...

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Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing was spied on by security services for more than 20 years over suspicions of her communist sympathies, newly declassified records show. Lessing's movements were ...

“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 ...

In 1920s Rhodesia, leopards and snakes roamed the bush. Yet for 6-year-old Doris Lessing, this inhospitable environment offered a welcome refuge from her parents: Alfred, a soldier whose leg had been ...