The British novelist Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize in Literature this morning, the Swedish Academy announced. Ms. Lessing, who is 87 and still active as a writer, has addressed a wide range of themes during more than half a century of literary work, some of it autobiographical, including science fiction, feminism and relations between the sexes, Africa’s experience under colonial rule and decolonization, and the left and its discontents. Her work has been the subject of extensive scholarship. Ms. Lessing will receive the prize, worth about $1.5-million, at a ceremony in December. The prize is the fourth this week. On Monday the prize in medicine was announced. On Tuesday the physics prize was awarded. Yesterday the chemistry prize was awarded. The Chronicle will have a fuller report on the literature winner later. —Andrew Mytelka
October 11, 2007
Doris Lessing Wins Nobel Prize in Literature
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