An Old Woman and Her Cat by Doris Lessing

Author:Doris Lessing [Doris Lessing]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2013-02-24T16:00:00+00:00

About the Author

Doris May Lessing was born of British parents in Persia (now Iran) in 1919 and was taken to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) when she was five years old. She spent her childhood on a large farm there and first came to England in 1949. She brought with her the manuscript of her first novel, The Grass is Singing, which was published with outstanding success in Britain, America and ten European countries.

For over fifty years she has been writing provocative, inventive and influential works, ranging from novels, short stories and science fiction to autobiography, drama, poetry, essays and operas. Since publishing The Grass is Singing, Lessing’s international reputation has flourished. Among her other celebrated novels are The Golden Notebook, The Summer Before the Dark and Memoirs of a Survivor. She has also published two volumes of her autobiography, Under my Skin (which received the James Tait Black Prize) and Walking in the Shade. The collection of short novels, Five, earned Lessing the Somerset Maugham Award in 1954. The French translation of The Golden Notebook (1962) won the Prix Medici in 1976. In 1982 she received the Austrian State Prize for Literature and the Shakespeare Prize, Hamburg. Lessing has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times: Briefing for a Descent into Hell (1971), The Sirian Experiments (1981) and The Good Terrorist (1985) and won the WH Smith Award in 1985. In August 1991, she received an honorary title of Distinguished Fellow in Literature in the School of English and American Studies conferred by University of East Anglia as well as receiving an honorary degree from Harvard University in 1995.

Lessing has turned down an OBE and a Damehood, but accepted her appointment as a Companion of Honour in 1999, awarded to those who have done ‘conspicuous national service’. In 2001 she was awarded the Spanish Prince of Asturias Prize in Literature, the David Cohen British Literature Prize and received a Companion of Honour from the Royal Society for Literature. She was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize and received S. T. Dupont Golden PEN Award for a Lifetime’s Distinguished Service to Literature.

In 2007 Lessing was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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